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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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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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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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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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