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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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