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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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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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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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