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.
ADAM GOPNIKI think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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