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It is not only grief that makes writing in the time of genocide a torturous task; it is, more so, one’s recognition of the written word as shamefully insufficient in the face of 2,000-pound bombs.
“I make them bald, I turn them gay, my work is done!”
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“name was Tom Smith and he had performed so many marriages he could recite the service in his sleep. Sometimes he did and his wife would lie in bed and listen to him, the whole service through, comforted that someone could know the words of love by heart.”
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“no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
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“Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.”
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