We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
ADAM GOPNIKWhat 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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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