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The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.
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These are hysterical times; any novel that aims at hysteria will now be effortlessly outstripped.
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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Any collective term for a supposed literary movement is always too large a net, catching significant dolphins among so much cannable tuna. You cannot place first-time novelists with literary giants, New York hipsters with Kilburn losers, and some of the writers who got caught up with me are undeserving of the criticism.
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We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
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… and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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October 25, 1975
(age 48)
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