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• I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
• Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.
• Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive…
• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism…
• The scare quotes burn off like fog.
• What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a…
• I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt…
• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

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