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• Words at night were feral things.
• The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…
• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though…
• The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how…
• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is…
• One writes to find words' meanings.
• There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of…
• You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

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