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- The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware…
- Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff…
- What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach…
- I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the…
- I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.†Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.
- The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered…
- It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of…
- Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein…
- [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned;…
- Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
- All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
- As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War…
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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