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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.

Adam Gopnik

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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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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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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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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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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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 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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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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