Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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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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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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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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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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