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““Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how badly you’d fucked up your life.””

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There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

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In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

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We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I…

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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

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“When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the…

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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

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“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.”

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By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being…

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“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just…

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In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the…

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For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents…

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“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on…

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