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• Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
• Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…
• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…
• For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
• There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
• Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
• The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.…
• The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's…
• Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
• If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
• To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

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