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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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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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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
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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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Civilised Core Life Live Mean Think Thinking
The 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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Faith Fanaticism Horror People Trap Trick
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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Argument Imagination Spoken Stories Trouble Try Trying Written
You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Argue Behave Leran Musi Patience Possible Reader Sing Singing With
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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Accomplishment Adult Competence Less Professional relief Sense Sum
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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Always Drawn Idea Particularly People Sophisticated Think Thinking
It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Again Dissect Doing First Frog Longer. Thing Memorize never Periodic Place relief Table
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Brutality Country Life Moral Scale Scandal
New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Always Country Experience Memories Place Possible State Worldwide
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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Answer Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue
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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Confection Make More Think Sense Sentence Slightly Write Written

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