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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn betwe...more

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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his ti...more

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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.