The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
ADAM GOPNIKThe trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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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 mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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