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Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over…

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“You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.”

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It's my policy not to review funerals.

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“I love my foot. If I had to send a part of myself to represent myself in some other country, or in…

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The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of…

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“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone…

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Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're…

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“A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in…

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“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush…

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I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is…

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I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the…

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The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or…

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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and…

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Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling…

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“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

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“I look. At the two-thirty spot I see a group of men watching two women kiss. I've never entirely understood why men…

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I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a…

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“And I can't help but wonder, did George want to kill me too? I have no doubt that the only thing that…

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“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I…

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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

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“We're all good when we want to be, otherwise we're fucking animals. There is no VIP room in reality, and there is…

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“Lillian comes out of the kitchen carrying an artefact, the blue metal tin marked Danish Butter Cookies that if I didn't know…

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“Today's the day. The clock is ticking. I have been summoned to speak. I go before the committee with a chance to…

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“I’m trying to find some piece of myself that is truly me, a part that I would be willing to wear like…

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