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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself…
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In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we…
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Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the…
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Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell…
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Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears…
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The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports…
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