You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
ADAM GOPNIKLose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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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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 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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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There 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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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 an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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