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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Adam Gopnik

I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Agreeably Intensely More Oiontated Speak Think Thinking Writing
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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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
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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Attacked Believe Possible Problem Right Side Something Trust
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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Childbirth Entirely Friendship Made Marriage Stand Story Strangest Tell
If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Coffee Culture Decent Food Grow Growing Together Up
It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Answer Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
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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Capitalism Feel Giving Make Need Perhaps Silly Simple Sin Stuff
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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Attitude Cooking Course Decent Party People Professional Simplicity Thinking
If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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Act Cause Certain Everone Interest People Peripheral Pursuit Violently Willing World
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Buzz Buzzing Feeling Give Giving Head Idea Merely Start Try
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Choose Crazy Day Disinherited Every Man Monarch Thinking Woman

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