The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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