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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

Discovery, Emotion, Expression, Real, Shorthand
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Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can. . . well. . . go on.

Aspiration, Darkness, Goes On, Hopeless, Selfless

You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?

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A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience. . . Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

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