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- If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly…
- How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called…
- The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when…
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
- I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in…
- People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives,…
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
- See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason.…
- ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
- The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on…
- But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows,…
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