For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
ADAM GOPNIKThe trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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