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Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.
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We inherit plots... There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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Kiese Laymon
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August 15, 1974
(age 51)
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Kiese Laymon is an American writer, editor and a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.
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