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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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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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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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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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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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