Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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