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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.


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In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.



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What isn't said is as important as what is said.



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A society manufactures the heroes it requires.



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Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?



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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

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