Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
ADAM GOPNIKFanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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
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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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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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