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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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