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From Quotes by Dan Chaon
- I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on…
- Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
- Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture…
- Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that…
- It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had…
- There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
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