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.
ADAM GOPNIKAmericans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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