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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

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Catherine Brady

I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.

Beautiful, Colored, Ending, Fall, Stories
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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

Doe, Human, Human Nature, Nature, Thinking, Virtue

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

Perspective, See, Somewhere Else, Supposed, Things, Writing

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace. " The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.

Advice, Amount, Given, Grace, Motion, Stories

I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.

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When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.

Challenges, Interesting, Work, Writing
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