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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Steven Heighton

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

Boredom, yes, as in those moments when the eyes stare without itinerary—when the brain's hard drive revolves at low rpm, uncoupled from regimen, responsibility, the whole Logistical Life that becomes one's life in the middle years, what Hinduism calls the Householder Phase, to do to do to do to do to do. But now alpha waves are lapping at the shore of the mind as you depart the secretarial for the sacramental realm.

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

Born: August 14, 1961

Died: April 19, 2022 (aged 60)

Bio: Steven Heighton was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He was the author of thirteen books, including three short story collections, three novels and five poetry collections.

Known for:

Afterlands (2005)
The Shadow Boxer (2000)
Every Lost Country (2010)
The Dead Are More Visible (2012)
Flight Paths of the Emperor (1992)

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