Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
ADAM GOPNIKArt without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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