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Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

Ben Marcus

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there’s nothing to be done about them.
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Attention Done Feelings
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife’s a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
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House Kids Summer Wife Writing
Being with him was like being alone underwater – everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.
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Alone Being Like Love Underwater
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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Care Long Suspense
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
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Body Self Sometimes
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it’s vivid, I find that I care about it, and it’s part of me.
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Care Fiction Space
Mostly we’re motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there’s a bit of a lab for bad behavior.
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Home Labs Motivation
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I’ve come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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Emotional Level Writing
My goal, with whatever I’m working on, is to lose track of time.
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Goal Loses Track
My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
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Age Book Review Wire
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
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Breaking Complicated Down Fiction
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Desperate Failing Language
You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
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Consequences Detect Terrible Test
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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Grief Looks Sound
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.
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Circles Misunderstood People
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.
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Follow Thinking Truth Way

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

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