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• Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…
• We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading…
• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
• The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
• ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living,…
• People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well…

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