Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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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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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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