A Chokehold On Reason
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The Difference Between Ambition and Achievement
When we're really good at something, writing is mine. Steve Sondheim used to say specifically that he really could always write a song. When I start off writing an essay, I expect every sentence to be as psychologically intricate as Proust and as rhapsodically sensual as John Updike. And then I see that it is not all of those things at once. It's yours for the price of passionate perseverance.
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