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.
ADAM GOPNIKCredibility’ 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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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 doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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The 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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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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