In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
ADAM GOPNIKThat 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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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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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