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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why…
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I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just…
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very…
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It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was,…
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The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation:…
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