The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
ADAM GOPNIKFor me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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