I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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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 overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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