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 GOPNIKMaking an idea into an emotion.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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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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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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