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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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