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That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to ...more

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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Potential has a shelf life.

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Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in l...more

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You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

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You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and ...more

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...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you w...more

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

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What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwis...more