- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.
- Churning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020