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A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

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Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

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I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

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The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: June 27th, 1975

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