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• Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
• Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
• I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
• It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the…
• When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
• There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly…
• Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
• In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

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