“ We made love. How pedestrian the words look–trite, worn, practically featureless with use–but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow… a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky… gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light… as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers. ”
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“ It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them? ”
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“ I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. ”
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“ When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. ”
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“ It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them? ”
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“ We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. ”
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“ The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon ”
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“ One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thinlipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?" [Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)] ”
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“ One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thinlipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?" [Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)] ”
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“ He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating. ”
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“ He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating. ”
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“ Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more — let me see — more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle… ”
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“ Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more — let me see — more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle… ”
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“ We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ”
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“ We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. ”
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“ I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary. ”
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“ I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!". ”
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“ There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. ”
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