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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

Adam Gopnik

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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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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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Invented
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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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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Spoken Stories Trying Written
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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Clarity Reflect Simplest Table Way
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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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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Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Prisoner Punish
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.

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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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First Goes Reel Traveler Two
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:

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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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Alchemies Childbirth Self Strangest
Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Think
You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”

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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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Childbirth Entirely Made Strangest Tell
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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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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Eye Feel Minute Name Somehow
Making an idea into an emotion.

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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Everything Generate Idea Making
If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Attacked Side Something
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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Argument Since Editorial Mostly Side Winning Your
The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.

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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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British Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
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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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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Capitalism Feel Make Perhaps Silly Simple Stuff
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Visible Visitor

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