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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
~ Adam Gopnik
Absurd
Artificial
Being
Bit
Detachment
Enough
Invented
Life
Little
Little Bit
Quality
Secret
See
Some
Tastes
The Secret Of
Values
Way
Your
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
~ Adam Gopnik
Cooking
Side
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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, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
~ Adam Gopnik
Civilised
Core
Eating
Food
Friends
Going
I Think
Life
Live
Means
Meeting
New
New Friends
Old
Ordering
Pleasures
Restaurant
Someplace
Strangers
Surrounded
Think
Wine
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
~ Adam Gopnik
Add
Argument
Find
Infinitely
Information
Legends
Rock
Rock Stars
Rush
Settling
Stars
Up
Useful
Web
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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
Best
Breakfast
Classic
Meal
New
New York
Skip
Sort
Still
Think
York
You
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
~ Adam Gopnik
Always
Drawn
I Think
Idea
Particularly
People
Simplicity
Sophisticated
Think
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
~ Adam Gopnik
Additional
Bookstores
Interest
Sections
Stuff
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
~ Adam Gopnik
Been
Between
High
Legendary
Library
Lightness
Little
Long
New
New Yorker
Purpose
Seriousness
Space
Touch
Yorker
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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.
~ Adam Gopnik
Cook
Eat
Ingredient
Most
Now
Protein
Rarest
Thing
Time
Valued
Years
Years Ago
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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 Gopnik
Catch
Coffee
Coffee Shops
Great
Institution
More
New
New York
Shop
Shops
Sophisticated
Terrible
Traditional
Trying
Up
York
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
~ Adam Gopnik
Afternoon
Autumn
Best
Bitter
Breaks
Chill
Doubtless
Even
Games
Imagination
Kind
Light
Midnight
Played
Seeing
Series
Some
Spell
World
World Series
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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 - 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.
~ Adam Gopnik
Am
Attitudes
Chores
Cooking
Course
Credit
Domestic
Get
Guilty
Guys
Here
I Am
Many
Most
Ostentatious
Painless
Party
People
Take
Tend
Think
Truth
Virtue
Ways
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
~ Adam Gopnik
Adultery
Alcohol
Distract
Distractions
Equal
Fathers
Finding
Helpful
Internet
None
Our
Process
Something
Which
Writing
You
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
~ Adam Gopnik
Coffee
Culture
Decent
Food
Grow
Grow Up
Things
Together
Two
Up
Without
You
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