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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Adam Gopnik

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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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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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 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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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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