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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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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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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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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