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.
ADAM GOPNIKParis, 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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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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