Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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