The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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Tomorrow 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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