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- Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw…
- I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference…
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
- My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which…
- I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should…
- I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have…
- I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
- A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
- Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow.…
- A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the…
- This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he…
- Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.
- In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters…
- I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the…
- Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.
- The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
- I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.
- Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it…
- In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things…
- I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
- There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married…
- Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating…
- I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out…
- Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a…
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