Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
ADAM GOPNIKThe 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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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