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““The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her over and over until at last the cleaning woman scares it by yelling: "Motherfucker!””

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Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all…

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I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

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I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

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“because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn”

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“He did not know exactly when to thank his hostess after attending a dinner or a weekend party. In his uncertainty, he would thank…

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“There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did…

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“The people of the town, though, remained strangers: I could not realize that I must be seeing some of them over and over again,…

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“I only have two words to say More or Less”

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“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor”

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