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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Adam Gopnik

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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Behaviour Clarity Declare Emotion Human Reflect Simplest Table Value Way
The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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Heart Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
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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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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