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- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer…
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
- It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
- President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance,…
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death…
- The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
- We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know…
- You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay,…
- And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I…
- It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense…
- As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us…
- My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
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