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> [When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/when-it-comes-to-jump-starting-the-intricate-machinery-of/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

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## More by Gary Krist

> [Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/something-often-neglected-in-popular-accounts-of-the-wild-west-is-the/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/when-it-comes-to-jump-starting-the-intricate-machinery-of/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/let-s-start-at-the-very-end-the-postscript-of-stephen-king-s-on/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/future-historians-trying-to-determine-what-it-was-like-to-be-alive-in/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/many-critics-when-trying-to-praise-a-short-story-collection-will-say/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/the-illinois-constitution-was-written-before-they-realized-they-d/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

> [Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-krist/lionel-essrog-the-twitching-barking-gabbling-narrator-of-jonathan/)

[Gary Krist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-krist/)

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