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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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