Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
ADAM GOPNIKI still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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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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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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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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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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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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