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The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Despair Feel Hands Love
You’ve got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.
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Halfway Interested Lie Lying
I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”
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Inspiration Listen Love Say Wife
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I’ve had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Flaws Kind Writing
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
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Thinking Two Writing
Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?
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Children Grew Parents Up
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is… We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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Bogs Essence Labyrinth
I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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Care Different Plot
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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Great Hell Joy Needs
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused.
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Drinking Love Writing
The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You’re braver, and you’ll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it’d be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn’t.
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Beautiful Thinking Two
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.
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Believe Night Rabbits
My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.
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Language Plot Stories
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it’s just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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Alcoholism Family Genes Hate
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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Alcohol Drinking Hate
Literature is the history of the soul.
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History Literature Soul

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