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“If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Well, hold on; isn't one quality of a harsh system that it deforms the people within it and makes them complicit in their own destruction?”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“Fiction helps us remember that everything remains to be seen.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“The boldness of this leap teaches us something important about the short story: it is not a documentary or a rigorous accounting of the passage of time or a fair-minded attempt to show life as it is really lived; it's a radically shaped, even somewhat cartoonish (when held up against the tedious real world) little time machine that thrills us with the extremity of its decisiveness.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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