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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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 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 trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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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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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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