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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency

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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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 first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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