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Christopher D. Kent

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Born
Kansas, The United States
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Influences
Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Yates

Member Since
August 2020


Average rating: 3.5 · 4 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Dose Makes the Poison

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I am going to be performing this monologue as part of my theatre troupe. I picked this due to feeling foreign in both society and in my own body thanks to my struggle with Aspergers. It's a short but poignant piece. It's comforting to know the desire ...more
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Andre Dubus
“we don’t have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we’ve got.”
Andre Dubus, Selected Stories

Jack Kerouac
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Richard Yates
“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
Richard Yates

James Baldwin
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
James Baldwin

John  Williams
“To read without joy is stupid.”
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