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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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