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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Adam Gopnik

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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 loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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