The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
ADAM GOPNIKWe’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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 don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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