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This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God, . . . I simply cannot see where there is to get to. (“The Moon and the Yew
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“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”
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“Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.”
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“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
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“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding”
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“I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.”
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