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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.

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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Eye Malice Reread Thurber Working
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

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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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Drawing Skeleton Skull
Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Think
It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it

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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Answer Easy Grander Thing Tonight
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Make Mean Richer
Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Rhythm
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.

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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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After Carousel Honor Own Spinning
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Eraser Graduate Nothing
Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.

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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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MIssed Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
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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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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Bending Drawing Instruction Thing Those Uneasy
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.

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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Breakfast Classic Coffee Skip Sort Think
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
You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Argue Leran Musi Reader Singing With
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
New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Worldwide
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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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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Coffee Institution Traditional Trying

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