A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
ADAM GOPNIKNew York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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What 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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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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