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“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un monstruo. Generalmente sabe, además, que va a ser derrotado. Tener el valor, sabiendo previamente que vas a ser derrotado, y salir a pelear: eso es la literatura.”
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“Truth: I'd rather leave it
to chaos, nature's oddball math;
why try drunk punching through
a losing brawl?”
― Songs That Remind Us of Factories
to chaos, nature's oddball math;
why try drunk punching through
a losing brawl?”
― Songs That Remind Us of Factories
“I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.”
― Open: Stories
― Open: Stories
“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”
― By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
― By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
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