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Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer.

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The story of my family. . . changes with the teller.

Stories, My Family, Changes, Family, Story, Teller

That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

Deepest, Men, Mother, Pragmatic, Sacrifice, Unhealthy

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Fiction, Practice, Reading, Writing

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives. . . he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Art, Distance, Expansions, Prayer, Warm, Wisdom

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Voice, Familiar, Wanted, Larval, Version

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

Fog, Lesson, Loyalty, Powerful, Shelf

Morarji Desai

Morarji Desai

Robert Emmet

Robert Emmet

Lloyd deMause

Lloyd deMause

John MacAulay

John MacAulay

Jim Stafford

Jim Stafford

Philippe de Commines

Philippe de Commines

John H. Vandenberg

John H. Vandenberg

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

Shaukat Aziz

Shaukat Aziz

Jason Robert Brown

Jason Robert Brown

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rhys Darby

Rhys Darby