And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping … - Amy Bloom

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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

Amy Bloom

And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

Differently, Grief, Letting Go, Memories, Painful, Visiting

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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Guilty, Netting, Punished, Safe, Trim, World

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Embarrassingly, Perseverance, Team, Think, Thinking, Toothless

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Kindness, People, Shyness, Take

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Avoiding, Process, Procrastinating, Writing

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Depth, Experience, Lasts, Poem, Stories, Surprise