You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
ADAM GOPNIKAfter all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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