The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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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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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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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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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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