New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
ADAM GOPNIKThe basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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