Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
ADAM GOPNIKOften the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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