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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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