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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

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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

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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.

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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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