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?
ADAM GOPNIKMusic is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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 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 reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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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 relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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