There is something terrifyingly pure about their violence and the thirst for self-transformation. They renounce their roots to take as their models the revolutionaries whose conviction is enacted most ruthlessly. They manufacture like
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“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.”
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“I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
― The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
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