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• When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
• No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud…
• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves…
• The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood…
• We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the…
• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination,…
• What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of…

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