As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate … - Mark Leyner

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Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

Mark Leyner

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

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Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

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Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

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I've always been entranced with theater.

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I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness. "

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I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

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Dan Uggla

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

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Riane Eisler

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

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Alfred Kinsey

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

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