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One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes o...more

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This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That can happen when people d...more

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What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are ...more

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Am I mistaken to think that even back then, in the vivid present, the fullness of life stirred our emotions to an extraordinary extent? Has anywhere s...more

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You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance,...more

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That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but...more

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You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or ar...more

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I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch...more