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.
ADAM GOPNIKProtein 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.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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It 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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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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