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• Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
• When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned…
• If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's…
• A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
• I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
• Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail…
• Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet…
• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing…
• It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your…
• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you…

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