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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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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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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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