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.
ADAM GOPNIKTomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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