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• I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
• Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
• Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
• The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
• It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
• Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world…
• The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…

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