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- This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
- This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
- The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
- To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print,…
- Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
- We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I…
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