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If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.
Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about.
life is full of horrors small and large, but because the small ones are the ones we can comprehend, they are the ones that smack home with all the force of mortality.
having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue.
When a romantic tries to do a good thing and fails, they give him a medal. When a pragmatist succeeds, they wish him in hell.
