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> [I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/i-haven-t-written-a-whole-lot-of-nonfiction-but-what-i-have-written/)

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## More by Ron Currie Jr

> [“Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/your-relationship-with-your-brother-will-be-in-many-ways-the-most/)

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> [Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/partying-means-drinking-it-also-means-playing-records-by-lou-reed-and/)

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> [“There will likely be one important difference between corporeal suicide and digital suicide. Right now, one cannot destroy oneself utterly. We can blow our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/there-will-likely-be-one-important-difference-between-corporeal/)

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> [Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/sometimes-we-make-assumptions-about-influence-when-similarities/)

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> [“Compassion is a coat of fur I find particularly ill-fitting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/compassion-is-a-coat-of-fur-i-find-particularly-ill-fitting/)

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> [Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/singularity-is-seen-as-an-event-horizon-there-s-everything-that-comes/)

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> [A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/a-lot-of-the-despair-we-feel-watching-the-news-every-day-flows-from/)

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> [Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/most-of-my-writing-is-an-effort-one-way-or-another-to-figure/)

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> [“...a flight to Philly, then took the train west through hills and valleys where people sat mourning the loss of steel and wondering what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/a-flight-to-philly-then-took-the-train-west-through-hills-and-valleys/)

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> [I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/i-wonder-if-kids-growing-up-now-are-actually-going-to-have-that-if/)

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> [“First, enjoy this time!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/first-enjoy-this-time/)

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> [Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/singularity-will-be-an-opt-in-scenario-for-human-beings-especially-as/)

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> [“At the bakery it's just me. It's a small place. Just me and the raspberry horns and the tourtiere pies and my cigarette going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/at-the-bakery-it-s-just-me-it-s-a-small-place-just-me-and-the/)

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> [“One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/one-aspect-of-perfection-after-all-it-stands-to-reason-will-be-that/)

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> [“... where they ate when they were tired and fucked when they were hungry and slept when they were horny...where they felt with their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/where-they-ate-when-they-were-tired-and-fucked-when-they-were-hungry/)

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