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…
ADAM GOPNIKSometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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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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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.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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