You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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