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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

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Anybody gets to ask questions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself f...more

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For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're...more

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Anybody gets to ask questions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself f...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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It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.1010 One has only to s...more

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AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in...more

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Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Prog...more

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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to so...more

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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing h...more

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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about way...more