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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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