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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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 future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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