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• I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

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  Boston, Historical, Trying

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• It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

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  Memories, People, Details

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• I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

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  Thinking, Order, People

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• I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

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  Book, President, Wonder

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

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  Writing, Mean, Feel Better

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• Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

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  Love, Running, Fall

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• God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

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  Laughter, Howl, Plans

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• People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.

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  Beautiful, Country, Pain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

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  Writing, Humble, Years

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• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

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  Party, Paris, Important

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• Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

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  Five, Sixty

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• My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance.

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  Pain, People, Promise

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.

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  Reading, Lunch, Issues

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• I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

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  Believe, Book, Reading

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• It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

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  Moving On, Ghetto, Moved On

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• Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

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  Sadness

  Source: www.salon.com

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• So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

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  Book, Dark, Want

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• I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

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  People, Trying, Stuff

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• There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

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  Powerful, Talking, Needs

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• I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

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  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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  Sad, Memorable, Trying

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• The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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  Hockey, Ice, Other Cultures

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• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

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  Fiction, Facts, Bondage

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• I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

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  Spiritual, Giving Up, Believe

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• My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

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  Style, Contention

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