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Adam Gopnik

The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
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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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Breakfast Classic Coffee Country Meal Skip Sort Think Thinking
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Argument Imagination Spoken Stories Trouble Try Trying Written
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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Determine Exactly Full Listening might Room Stanton Still Sure Weeping
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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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
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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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Deep Deeply Evidence Good Outward Sometimes Think Thinking Time
A 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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Analogy Book Cartoon Charlie Hebdo Country Good Musical Popular South Park
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Age Bad Country Eye Faith Good Heart Malice People Reread Thurber Working Writing
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Brutality Country Life Moral Scale Scandal
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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Behaviour Clarity Declare Emotion Human Reflect Simplest Table Value Way
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
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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Capitalism Feel Grace Hope Material Object Possibility Stuff Urgency Want

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