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It feels good giving stuff away; it's just the in between process that's difficult.

"be careful: if your intuition says your story sucks, make sure it really is your intuition and not your mother."

"My characters know who the are,...but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad."

"Vonnegut said, 'When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.'"

"I worry that people would read what I've written and believe that the accident had really been a suicide"

"She would pray, 'Oh please, God. Help us to be merciful to ourselves.'"

I've had this book forever, but I only made it half way through. Page 1 seems like the right thing to do again .

"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."

"It is so hard to leave--until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

Makes no sense, except to the knot.

We are on earth and making the best of it.

Psychological prophylaxis is shot to hell.

Philosophy is not necessarily a safe occupation.

"It doesn't crystalize-no crystals, just pebbles."

"Nothing could come between her and her faith in literature."

Can a women be strong and clear without turning hard?

"Spring, optimum time of the year for suicides, is also an excellent season for the cook."

"To like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death."

"if...this play that she was acting in was a...useful play, well then, her role in it was poorly written, or... written for somebody else."

"we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time."

"It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light."

"they were now connecting dots that existed only in their minds."

"They were body artists, playing with the palette of human endurance."

"In a way fighting like this was like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe."

"There is really no end to life's little humiliations"

"If this is a hallucination, he thought, it's pretty damn hi-res."

"But I don't know where my place is. And what if I don't like my place when I find it?"

"But everyone knows what happens to lambs, don't they? That's not a secret."