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“Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.”

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“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.”

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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but…

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“why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards?”

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“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

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“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had…

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“So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and…

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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

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“Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.' His head tilted questioningly, birdlike. A sidekick?”

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

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“What I remembered about those seesaw rides was the way Thomas would get mad at me, midride, and evacuate. Send me crashing back down…

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“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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