Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I

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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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