This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
ADAM GOPNIKLose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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 future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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