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- When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it…
- When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,…
- Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as…
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote…
- It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on…
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
- It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within,…
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