Ben Fountain Quotes

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that’s about the time I started writing decent work.
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Funny Go Letting Things Writing
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
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Moments Perfection World
If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there’s something about the system that’s keeping him from getting his share, then I think he’s well within his rights to fight to change that.
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Fighting Rights Thinking
I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.
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Ashamed Gaps Littles
If you could figure out how to live with family then you’d gone a long way toward finding your peace.
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Gone Long Way
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
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Looks Writing Years