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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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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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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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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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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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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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