I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
ADAM GOPNIKFanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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