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Adam Gopnik

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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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Amplification Creation Evident Mordantly Paralyzing Paranoia Preëmptive Real Self Soundtrack Towards
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Coffee Culture Decent Food Grow Growing Together Up
The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Desire Happen Hot Overwhelming Something Truly Underlying
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Block Keep Often Sense Simplicity Wall Word Writing
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
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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Confection Make More Think Sense Sentence Slightly Write Written
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Burst Human Illuminated Malevolence Moneygrubbing Occasional Official Pretty Rhythm Sordid Violence
Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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Country Exactly Hand Heart Looked Sleeve Supposed
We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Emotion Eye Feel Lost Minute Name Somehow Thinking
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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Emotional Fact Intensity Look People Photography Sleep
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Choice Current Easy Made Mind Mindset Music Okay Seem
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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Accomplishment Adult Competence Less Professional relief Sense Sum
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Book Contemporary Kid Knowledge Literature Long Oddest Unexpected

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