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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios

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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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