New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
ADAM GOPNIKOften the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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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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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?
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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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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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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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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