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- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to…
- I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between…
- If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,…
- Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in…
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it…
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you…
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.…
- The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like…
- And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right…
- We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody…
- He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and…
- This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question…
- It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
- A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
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