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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

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I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginativ...more

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It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

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And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that make ten...more

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Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...