Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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