The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
ADAM GOPNIKThere 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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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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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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