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• Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not…
• What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.…
• When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in…
• Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently…
• At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for…
• When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
• My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
• Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
• At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have…
• There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action…
• When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

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