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- There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing…
- We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer…
- Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we…
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
- If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same…
- America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- The great thing about the dead, they make space.
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
- As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us…
- By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as…
- My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
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