Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
ADAM GOPNIKThat 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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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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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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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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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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