Steve Almond Quotes

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• All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work…
• Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
• Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world,…
• Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning…
• The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused…
• All language is an aspiration to music.
• There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
• To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact,…
• Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun.…
• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine…
• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our…
• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose…
• I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.
• But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the…
• At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy…
• Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny…
• Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.
• The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of…

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