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“I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.”
“I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.”
“The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.”
“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”
“The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didnt really know the person well.”
“There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?”
“My idea of literature, as I have often said, is that it should save lives. My idea of literature is that it once did save lives, and was of consequence in that way. I believe it can do so again. Wi...”
“What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Seventh Avenue line? What kind of woman do I love now, with a fealty that will not cease, not till m...”
“What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The bor...”
