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• We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of…
• As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies…
• Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among…
• Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your…
• And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed.…
• It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft…
• Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
• Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for…
• If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
• We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
• To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
• I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life.…

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