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“So while it is true that I find really dark…” quote by Rick Moody — Download Open image

“So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.”

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I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever…

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The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a…

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Literature precedes genre.

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I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.

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“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been…

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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

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Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

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The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among…

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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

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I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff -…

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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