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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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