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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 reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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