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Peter Rock
Goodreads Author
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in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
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March 2007
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My Abandonment
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2009
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Klickitat
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2016
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The Night Swimmers
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2019
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The Shelter Cycle
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2013
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Passersthrough
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The Bewildered
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2005
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The Unsettling
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2006
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This Is the Place
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1997
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The Ambidextrist
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2002
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Carnival Wolves
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1998
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Friends! A brief respite from my half-assed self-promotion; when I was writing a review of VICKY SWANKY IS A BEAUTY by Diane Williams, I remembered this tiny essay I wrote about a sentence of hers that has long bedeviled me:
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| "Some believe that if we're not smart like your mother and brother, we can't accomplish things. But we can if we are: one, funny, and two, humble." ...more | |
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| The whole thing is gold. The stories in the heart of it got me the most. "Returning" is a wonder of world-building and narrative-braiding. My favorites are maybe "G" and "Office Hours" ("He was both an involved mentor who frequently solicited her opi ...more | |
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So fine. Not sure why it took me this long. “Memories beget memories. Shen Fever being a disease of remembering, the fevered are trapped indefinitely in their memories. But what is the difference between the fevered and us? Because I remember too, I r ...more |
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“Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.” “Forgive me but I’m going to keep talking about me who am unknown to myself, and as I write I’m a bit surprised because I discover I have a destiny. Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I ...more |
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This is currently my favorite story in the world. “Do I absolutely have to answer? I’m not sure I see any link between you and me and your question. I’m here, you’re there, and the question is floating between us—and I don’t see any reason to change a ...more |
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| “Life is most difficult for those who know what they want and also know what makes it impossible for them to get what they want. Life is still difficult, but less so, for those who know what they want but have not realized that they will never get it ...more | |
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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
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