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
ADAM GOPNIKDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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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 I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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 relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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