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> [Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/loaded-with-note-cards-for-research-papers-that-i-was-hopelessly/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

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## More by Stuart Dybek

> [Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/our-plans-for-the-future-made-us-laugh-and-feel-close-but-those-same/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/h-ctor-tobar-s-accomplished-first-novel-affords-a-perspective-that-is/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/rather-than-feeling-that-every-moment-you-ve-got-to-exert-this/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/in-labor-day-hurricane-1935-douglas-trevor-vividly-recreates-a/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“Perhaps it's something other than insomnia, to lie listening to children yelling as if they've re-created light; to try to dream, but succeed only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/perhaps-it-s-something-other-than-insomnia-to-lie-listening-to/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/loaded-with-note-cards-for-research-papers-that-i-was-hopelessly/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/sometimes-in-a-tight-game-with-runners-on-digging-in-at-short-ready/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/but-we-didn-t-not-in-the-moonlight-or-by-the-phosphorescent-lanterns/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [The public library is where place and possibility meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/the-public-library-is-where-place-and-possibility-meet/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/i-had-this-sudden-awareness-she-continues-of-how-the-moments-of-our/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“In summer, waiting for night, we’d pose against the afterglow on corners, watching traffic cruise through the neighborhood. Sometimes, a car would go by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/in-summer-waiting-for-night-we-d-pose-against-the-afterglow-on/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/what-art-does-is-give-us-the-refinement-all-the-shades-of-meaning-of/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/from-its-aptly-noirish-title-on-martin-preib-s-the-wagon-has/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/love-it-s-such-a-night-laced-with-running-water-irreparable-riddled/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

> [In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/in-creation-myths-a-god-shapes-mud-or-clay-into-living-form-much-like/)

[Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/)

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