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Adam Gopnik

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Again Dissect Doing First Frog Longer. Thing Memorize never Periodic Place relief Table
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Heart Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Attacked Believe Possible Problem Right Side Something Trust
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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Beautiful Guy Handsome Impresses Intellect Man Mind Woman Work
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Behaviour Clarity Declare Emotion Human Reflect Simplest Table Value Way
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
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Brutality Country Life Moral Scale Scandal
What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Ask First Lead Place Question Think Window
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
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
Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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Apply Art Beautiful Brain Exist Mind Most Music Singer Song Sophisticated
We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Antiabortion Country Fanaticism Horror Isis Mass Shootings Militant Part Protester Thinking Violent
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
It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Mercilessly Missionaries Mock Mormonism Pretension Truth Virtue
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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Closed Country Dressed Everything Laborer Long Society World

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