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“It’s like how everyone thinks I like tacos. We don’t even eat tacos in Panamá!” my dad said. “That’s right. We eat chicken and rice,” my mom said. “And seafood. Corvina as fresh as God makes it.” “Yes.”
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“But it persisted, arriving in her mind like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.”
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“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.”
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“...and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.”
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