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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

Adam Gopnik

The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul
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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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Absorption Alchemy Experience Kind Literature Reader Self Share
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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Heart Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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After Carousel Honor Own Proud Reward Spinning
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Anand Thakur
Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Enter Found Individual Like Mind Reason Right Small Something Sound
Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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Country Exactly Hand Heart Looked Sleeve Supposed
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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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Coffee Culture Decent Food Grow Growing Together Up
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Age Bad Country Eye Faith Good Heart Malice People Reread Thurber Working Writing
The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Best Blackness Drawing Feeling Invite Know Mental Obvious One Scribbling Sensual Symbol
Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Deep Deeply Evidence Good Outward Sometimes Think Thinking Time
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Alchemies Childbirth Connection Friendship Human Marriage Self Sex Strangest Writing

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