Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
ADAM GOPNIKThere are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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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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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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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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