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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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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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