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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.

Adam Gopnik

I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Yet 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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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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
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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 think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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