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People say that they wouldn't pay to watch me play, but even I wouldn't pay to watch him play!

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Long, Loss, Proving, Thinking, Wearing
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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Based, Character, Constricting, Known, People

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Fiction, Honest, Thinking, Truth, Writing

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Enough, Literature, Realize, Realizing, Things, Writing

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Given, Grief, Mean, Names, Separate

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Damned, Live, Love You, Names, Order
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