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People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

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There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

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For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

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Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

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The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

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