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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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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.
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Able Men Suffering
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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Audience Country Light Misjudge
My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.
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Language Plot Stories
Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Despair Feel Hands Love
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
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.
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Belief Gratitude Writing
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
When you’re not involved, other people’s unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it’s you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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Agony People Thinking
I don’t really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It’s a bad idea, terrible. I’ve met creative-writing majors from other places and they don’t know a goddamn thing. They’re the worst students. They just think they’re good because they could pass.
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Believe Thinking Writing
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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Boys Endless Practice
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It’s a myth. There’s so much bad gun stuff.
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Gun Pistols Stuff
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That’s a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
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Character Joy Long
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they’re not. They’re not out there waiting. They’re not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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Book Intelligent Writing
I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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Album Musician Writing
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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Great Hell Joy Needs
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Deep Howl Wretched

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