“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's a fairy tale. It's what people… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn’t say anything about us being gone or… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what most people mean when they use the word love. If they haven’t contorted their lives around a hope sharp enough… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
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