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From up so close we must seem clumsy and gloomless, like new lovers undressing in front of each other for the first time. Regarding loss, I’m afraid to keep it in the story, worried what I might bring back to life,
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Denis Johnson
“You're frail, Kev. You have this quality as if your childhood terrors aren't done with you.”
Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Vladimir Nabokov
“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lap dogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Ilya Kaminsky
“For years, my sealed lips kept the intoxicating story of his madness. As he delivered his jokes, I laughed with my lips tight together. “Was Isaac drinking last night?” Marina asked. “I’m not sure! But when he arrived, he asked for a mirror to see who came home.”
Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa: Poems

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“The reward for goodness is just more goodness and sometimes not even that.”
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Gillian Flynn
“I quit because when you give 23,546 hand jobs over a three year period, carpal tunnel syndrome is a very real thing.”
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

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