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- God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is…
- Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or…
- The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.
- If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,…
- The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight…
- What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
- I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
- I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
- Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like…
- I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said…
- K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually…
- If you've never wept and want to, have a child.
- I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
- Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
- Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
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