In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPFifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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