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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as…
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Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder…
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the…
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People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not…
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Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing…
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When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for…
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Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
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All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
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I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my…
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The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
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Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to…
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Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what…
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Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning…
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Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require…
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I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever…
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At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.
— Sylvia Plath
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It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart…
— Loren Eiseley
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that…
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