Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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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 still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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