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.
ADAM GOPNIKWe 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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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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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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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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