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• One writes to find words' meanings.
• There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of…
• You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.
• Words at night were feral things.
• Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.
• You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your…
• Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it…
• You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them…
• The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…
• Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.
• But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most…
• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though…

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