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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

Adam Gopnik

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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Capitalism Feel Giving Make Need Perhaps Silly Simple Sin Stuff
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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Attitude Cooking Course Decent Party People Professional Simplicity Thinking
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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Expression Found Question Say Something Strong Sweet True Winsome Word Writing
I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Always Drawn Idea Particularly People Sophisticated Think Thinking
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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Faith Fanaticism Horror People Trap Trick
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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Answer Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Absence Bug Decor Essential Mind Missing Pun
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Back Befogged Listening might Often Past Present Still Unknowable
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Beautiful Guy Handsome Impresses Intellect Man Mind Woman Work
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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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
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
The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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Capitalism Feel Grace Hope Material Object Possibility Stuff Urgency Want
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Explore First Goes Journey Kind People Reel Thinking Traveler Two
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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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue

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