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Pushing by the man, he ran down the street towards the station.

“Can’t you see Hemingway’s having breakfast with his grandson?”

“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”

She’d do anything once, to know what it was like.

He’s an excellent student. It’s just that . . . he thinks ideas are real.

It’s other things than the like of you would make a person afeard.

Bodies, moths, destroyers. Fear like finding a bullet in a snowman.

I decide it’s as good a place as any to stop, pant & smell the roses—

We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.

He picked up the knife I had there, and said he’d kill me if ever I told.

I realized you were my fourth love, and the system was always doomed.

Daofu was a cluster of lights bubbling up in the belly of a darkened plain.

A landscape values people at the level that it values other things.

It is February in Ukraine. Juliana tells the reporter she just wants to live in her country.

My wife fell in love with a dancer. A woman. I came here to get away.

The neighbors were Ukrainians with bad tempers and owned guns.

At nineteen I lived for three months as an earnest cocaine addict.

I could throw one of these rocks at the moon and watch it fall.

They wrapped him in bandages from all three kits. The old man watched them.

“You could come, too! No one’s forcing you to go to fucking China.”

I will leave the pills in their bottles, I will leave the bottles by my bed.

It changes nothing. It’s nasty shit, and you’ve gotta get clean.

I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.

Jayne Anne Phillips recalls her friend, the legendary Sam Lawrence.

Sam was like family. He was the angel of my writing life in every word.

I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.

Suddenly John was there, in slim blue jeans and a rough white shirt.

He says the word robbery and you don’t know if he’s asking or telling.

There’s something about traveling by plane. People tell their secrets.