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You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.

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Anatole Broyard

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

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People. . . have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

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