That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
ADAM GOPNIKGoing 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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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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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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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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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