Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
ADAM GOPNIKIf we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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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.
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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.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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