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“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,”
― All Grown Up
― All Grown Up
“original work fashions a form the true shape of which it discovers only as it proceeds, so the early strokes are useless, however fine their sheen. Only when a paragraph’s role in the context of the whole work is clear can the envisioning writer direct its complexity of detail to strengthen the work’s ends.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“The best use of literature bends not toward the narrow and the absolute but to the extravagant and the possible.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. –JOHN CAGE1”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“This was the practice: I was starting to get rid of my possessions, at least the useless ones, because possessions stood between me and death. They didn’t protect me from death, but they created a barrier in my understanding, like many layers of bubble wrap, so that instead of thinking about what was coming and the beauty that was here now, I was thinking about the piles of shiny trinkets I’d accumulated. I had begun the journey of digging out.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
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