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““Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily--You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic!””

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“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned, they use much too much barbecue sauce, which anyone should know has the almost immediate effect of soaking the bun, the bun becoming like oatmeal, inedible, the burger ruined, all in a matter of minutes--so quick…

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“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to the sea. I can already see where I'll end. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: I don't know what to tell you. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: But the thing is, I really love moving like this, though I know…

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But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went…

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“One button for the rest of your life online.”

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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will…

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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

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“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into…

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“Have we wasted precious space dust on you?”

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“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

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“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten…

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Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

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The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

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