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- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed,…
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous…
- At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
- We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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