Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
ADAM GOPNIKI 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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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There 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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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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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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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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