Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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