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- No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
- No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
- I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
- This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.
- This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is…
- We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the…
- Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
- There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
- If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
- Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.
- Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
- Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.
- The point of books is to combat loneliness.
- It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
- I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
- It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
- This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
- The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").
- So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?
- Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
- I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
- Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
- I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
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