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 GOPNIKWhat do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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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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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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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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