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Brightness Falls (1992)
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A party is like a marriage... making itself up while seeming to follow precedent, running on steel rails into uncharted wilderness while the promises shiver and wobble on the armrests like crystal stemware.
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The new puritanism. Sloth, gluttony, recreational drugs were out. Narcissism, blind ambition and greed by contrast were free of side- or after-effects, at least in this life, and who was counting on the other anymore?
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Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer about the progress of his disease.
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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January 13, 1955
(age 69)
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