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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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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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