The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living any... - John Updike
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
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"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."