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 GOPNIKThat any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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 first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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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.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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