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It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
