For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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