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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

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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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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Breathe Choice First Language Our Second Swim Travel
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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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Fear Hysteria Incipient Invitation Note Real Relentless Scenarios Self Ungrounded
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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Accomplishment Art Bone Drawing Need Skeleton Skull
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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
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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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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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Correctional Country Fact Height More People Supervision Understand
Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
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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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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