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1 " You wanted people’s stories, not them. You cared for the tale, not the teller. "
― Rabih Alameddine , The Wrong End of the Telescope
2 " You had to get another degree in order to become a productive member of an evil society. "
3 " Insanity is the insistence on meaning. "
4 " You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you’ll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing explained anything to you? Writing does not force coherence onto a discordant narrative. "
5 " Writing one’s story narcotizes it. Literature today is an opiate. "
6 " What breaks us is rarely what we expect. "
7 " Why is it that you live in such a place yet consider the world so dangerous?""I'm an American. "
