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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as…
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Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder…
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the…
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People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not…
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Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing…
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When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for…
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Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
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All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
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I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my…
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The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
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Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to…
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Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what…
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Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder…
— Geoff Dyer
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Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
— Isaac Asimov
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Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its…
— Alexander McQueen
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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
— Anzia Yezierska
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In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my…
— Martha Whitmore Hickman
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When…
— Jon Stewart
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Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile…
— Rachel Carson
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For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the…
— George A. Sheehan
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