I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
ADAM GOPNIKA good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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