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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.

Adam Gopnik

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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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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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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 French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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