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From Quotes by Dorianne Laux
- I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to…
- Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get…
- Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
- Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward…
- Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all…
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