The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
ADAM GOPNIKThe future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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.
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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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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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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