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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

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My mother used to push ‘Wuthering Heights’ on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

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June 13, 2024

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

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June 13, 2024

My mother used to push ‘Wuthering Heights’ on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

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