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• The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.…
• I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
• My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a…
• They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in…
• Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
• Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
• Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the…
• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd…
• People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know…
• Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
• Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this.…
• This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

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