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- In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to…
- Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company…
- There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
- I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
- I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,…
- I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
- Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
- I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these…
- Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
- I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of…
- I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on…
- Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We…
- Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
- The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails.…
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