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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember ...more

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The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to ...more

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Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.

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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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And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK ...more