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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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