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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all th...more

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An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is disho...more

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Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going back to something that isn't really clear: that ava...more

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There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now...more

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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down ex...more

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Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto.

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It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

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Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided...more

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What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed to...more