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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Adam Gopnik

The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Dinner Food Prisoner Punish Punishment Water
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Buzz Buzzing Feeling Give Giving Head Idea Merely Start Try
For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Art Idea Mistrust Poetry Spend Talk Talking Truth Writing Year
That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Consequent English Loudly Misunderstanding Simply Spoken Trouble
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Breathe Choice First Language Our Second Swim Travel
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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Argument Imagination Spoken Stories Trouble Try Trying Written
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Believe Country Distance Error Fault Language Simple
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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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
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
New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Always Country Experience Memories Place Possible State Worldwide
The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul

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