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
ADAM GOPNIKA 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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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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