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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.

Adam Gopnik

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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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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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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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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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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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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