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- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get…
- Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
- It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
- In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.…
- I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
- Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get…
- Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
- Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to…
- I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts…
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
- There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing…
- ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,…
- I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
- Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to…
- My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain…
- Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of…
- Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as…
- You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
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