I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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 blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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The 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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