Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
ADAM GOPNIKIt 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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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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