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“Part of the problem,” Tavi said, “is talking about big decisions as changing your life in one way, permanently and finally, even though life keeps going and things change again.”

Well, you need dirt to grow plants. A farmer I admire once wrote that 90% of his job was dirt management. Manage the dirt well and the plants grow themselves.

That it’s intended to keep something out as much as it is keeping something in.

it’s not done because it’s perfect. It’s done because it’s done.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

“Ease can be exciting.”

Remnick does not dispute her account. “I think I would be happy if Judith Thurman wanted to write next about the National Football League,” he explained to me in an email. “The point is, I love reading her on whatever moves her, and she is a woman of parts, of wide-ranging interests and sensibility, a deep reader of literature, someone with a keen ... See more

It’s holding my ambivalence in narrative.