I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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