- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
- Blinded
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- Nov 07, 2020