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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.

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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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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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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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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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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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