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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.

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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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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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