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
ADAM GOPNIKNew York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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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 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 do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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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
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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The 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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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