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

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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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