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If you can’t hide or destroy the truth, surround it with bullshit. You can always kill it later.
“You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.”
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“But some nights, I must tell you,
I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.
I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.
I sing a love song as well as I can,
lost for a while in the home of the rain. ”
― Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.
I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.
I sing a love song as well as I can,
lost for a while in the home of the rain. ”
― Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.”
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JSims’s 2025 Year in Books
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