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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…

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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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