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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent...more

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Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could ...more

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Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency—a chaos—, an insa...more

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For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

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I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would ...more