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.
ADAM GOPNIKNothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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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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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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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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