Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
ADAM GOPNIKLose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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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 trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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