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But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

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We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.So too often w...more

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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the b...more

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: ...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

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At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regul...more

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I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.