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
ADAM GOPNIKThe coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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