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 GOPNIKGoing 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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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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