“I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
“A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're both right.”
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“The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
“You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has lost his shoes, and so belligerent no one will help him find them.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
“The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
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