Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Art 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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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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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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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