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- But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
- A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,…
- It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would…
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
- By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes…
- They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to…
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