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• Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
• The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
• Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
• I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
• The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
• The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
• I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
• Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
• Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in…
• Is death that which gives meaning to life?
• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the…

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