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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I’m working on, is to lose track of time.
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Goal Loses Track
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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Grief Looks Sound
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.
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Follow Thinking Truth Way
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
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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Balance Example Parent
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
Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.
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Book Copyright Permisson Weather Wind
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There’s so much power and often very little accountability.
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Accountability Kids Parent
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
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.
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Prayer Rain Sky
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
Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I’d said that, how many times I’d meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.
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Dispute Impact Love Sorry Times Wonder yself
To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don’t feel that that’s natural to other art forms in the same way.
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Art Feel Listen Technology Writing
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
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O’Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
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Bigs Dose Grief
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
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Breaking Complicated Down Fiction

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

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