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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
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“I wanted them to have a death certificate so people would know that they had lived and they had died — they were here. Because they at least deserved that. They couldn't be "nobody's nothing" after what they had been through.”
― All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
― All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
“When I was young
I wanted to be just like him.
One of the charm, of a bright orange smile
and muscular laughter.
Bold brown eyes flashing fearless
when he sat not alone
on cold blue nights
in empty boxcars.
Riding a freight train's
solitary wail
away from Nebraska
Depression, accompanying dreams
withered farms.
Nothing left but the
leaves of possibilities.”
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I wanted to be just like him.
One of the charm, of a bright orange smile
and muscular laughter.
Bold brown eyes flashing fearless
when he sat not alone
on cold blue nights
in empty boxcars.
Riding a freight train's
solitary wail
away from Nebraska
Depression, accompanying dreams
withered farms.
Nothing left but the
leaves of possibilities.”
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