The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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 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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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