That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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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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