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People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they’re wrong. Movement isn’t a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Adam Ross

You know, as I’ve grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don’t think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.
ADAM ROSS

Anand Thakur
I’m interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?
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Art Change Interested Limit Personality Possibility Power Powerful Saving
Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.
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Collection Each Entertainment Heeded Merely Question Stories Story Warning Wrestler
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player – were talking sixth grade here – that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
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After Book Childhood Football Long Player Pro Stint Suring Writing
Perhaps it’s simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
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Age Dual Love Marriage Nature Perhaps Proximity Violence
Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.
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Forever Hardcover Paperback Someone Tree
I’ll never forget reading Chekhov’s “A Doctor’s Visit” on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end
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Country Doctor End Flower Forget Goodbye Reading Train Visit
Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.
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Emotional Hold Mind Real Single Sitting Thinking
People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they’re wrong. Movement isn’t a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
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Kind Life Movement People Reprieve Thinking
This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative.
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Cumulative Different Effect Emotional Experience Novel Reading
Let’s just hope market forces don’t send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.
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Compared Dinosaur Fiction Forced Hope Market Novel Sale Send Short
the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him – and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon’s top.
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Canyon Cowboy Doctor Flower Patient Put Scene Top
I can’t imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I’m regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I’m developing and learning.
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Anxiety Codger Fiction Imagine Longer Read Suffering Those Turning
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.
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Country Late Legend Person Professors University Wok
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity?
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Character Examining Hell Inequality Lighting Reader Spared Trying Way

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they’re wrong. Movement isn’t a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

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People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they’re wrong. Movement isn’t a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

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