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• Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
• Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
• In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
• Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the…
• The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
• In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in…
• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
• Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge…
• I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
• My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we…

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