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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love and the imagination are connected.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.
- Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020