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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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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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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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The 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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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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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