I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
ADAM GOPNIKYet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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