We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, … - Anthony Marra

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In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

Anthony Marra

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

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She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

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We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

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