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.
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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