Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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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 overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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