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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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Chose Circuitous Good Looking Mind More Path Route Showing Something Suggest Worthwhile
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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Care First Last Look Love Sleep Someone Understand
The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Choose Crazy Day Disinherited Every Man Monarch Thinking Woman
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Deep Deeply Evidence Good Outward Sometimes Think Thinking Time
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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Absence Bug Decor Essential Mind Missing Pun

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