We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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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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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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