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- I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and…
- I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of…
- When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead…
- Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is…
- We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did…
- Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it…
- At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a…
- The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead…
- I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their…
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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