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• I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
• If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they…
• The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast…
• There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.…
• If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…

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