You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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 relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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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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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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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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