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I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

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I’m nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
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Black Bomb Burst Night Powder Single
A lot of people get flipped out if you’re quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don’t start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that’s totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it’s scary.
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Flipped People Talking Thinking
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.
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Eerie Unforgettable World
It’s my policy not to review funerals.
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Funeral Policy Review
I’d say our ability to supersize emotions are American-made special effects. In European countries, people mostly stay close to home and whatever rage there is simmers under the surface – it’s what made the plays of Shakespeare and Harold Pinter so good.
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Country Emotion Home People Special
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
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Fact Little Normal Secret Understood
Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
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Book More Owner Tell
It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it’s pretty obvious when you’re in a kitchen and when you’re not.
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Annoy Habit Hell Kitchen Mean People Secret
Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better – does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
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Better Dream Going Away Tremor Warning
If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.
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Book Break Everything Writing
You really can’t write well if you’re thinking about what the reviewers might say.
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Really Review Thinking Writing
Sometimes you can do things for others that you can’t do for yourself.
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Offer Sometimes Thing
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
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Criminal Flawed Interest Loyal Loyalty
People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
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Attention Giving Pay People Want
I’m very interested in compassion – compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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Character Compassion Interest Write Writing

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