Making an idea into an emotion.

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Making an idea into an emotion.

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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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First Last Someone
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Handsome Impresses
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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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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Illuminated Malevolence Moneygrubbing Occasional Official Rhythm Sordid
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.

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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Buzz Buzzing Give Idea Merely
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes

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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Amazing Technologically
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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Argument Since Editorial Mostly Side Winning Your
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.

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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Distract Helpful Something
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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Back Befogged Listening might Often Still Unknowable
The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.

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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Best Blackness Drawing Invite Know Obvious One Scribbling Sensual
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

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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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Block Keep Often Word
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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Enter Found Like Small Something
For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I

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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Idea Mistrust Talking Year
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Visible Visitor
I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Drawn Idea Particularly Sophisticated Think
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios

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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Hysteria Incipient Note Real Relentless Scenarios Self Ungrounded
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

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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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Engage Magician Maze

Making an idea into an emotion.

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