You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
ADAM GOPNIKMaking an idea into an emotion.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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