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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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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
— Hans Hofmann
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An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.
— Anna Held
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I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in…
— Galen
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I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope…
— James Nachtwey
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Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on…
— Jonathan Franzen
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6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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