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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
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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Accomplishment Adult Competence Less Professional relief Sense Sum
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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Attacked Believe Possible Problem Right Side Something Trust
The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Desire Happen Hot Overwhelming Something Truly Underlying
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Chose Circuitous Good Looking Mind More Path Route Showing Something Suggest Worthwhile
It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Again Dissect Doing First Frog Longer. Thing Memorize never Periodic Place relief Table
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Convention Drawing Finding Los Schematic Shade Shape Surprising Symbol Welter
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 Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Brutality Country Life Moral Scale Scandal
The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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Capitalism Feel Grace Hope Material Object Possibility Stuff Urgency Want
I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Civilised Core Life Live Mean Think Thinking
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Fear Hysteria Incipient Invitation Note Real Relentless Scenarios Self Ungrounded
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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Always Country Experience Memories Place Possible State Worldwide
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor

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