We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
ADAM GOPNIKWhat drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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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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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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