Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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