Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
ADAM GOPNIKThe light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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