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I think after you live it's like before you lived.
You have to do something bad to do something good.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
Years were passing through the spaces between moments.
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.
I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was
They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.