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Todd Todd said: " I first read Orr's essay in the NYT Review of Books a week ago. Then yesterday read a review of the book. Got it. Started it. Orr is clever, funny, and helps anyone fall in love or back in love with poetry. ...more "

 
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James Tate
“Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.”
James Tate

Tim O'Brien
“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Will Self
“Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.”
Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Ernest Hemingway
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Tim O'Brien
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
Tim O'Brien

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