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 GOPNIKI think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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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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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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