If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in … - Jayne Anne Phillips

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the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

Jayne Anne Phillips

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Felt, Music, Silence, Vibrations, Wind

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Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Believe, Live, Practice, Transformation, Writing

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Diminish, Grows, Hometown, Hometowns, Remain, Towns

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

Country, Distance, Make, Memories, Reminiscent, Transformed

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Line, Music, Sound, Weight, Writing

I wish I had more time to write.

More Time, Time, Wish, Write, Writing

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