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Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

— John Gregory Dunne Crooning: A Collection (1990)

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Membership in the closed society of the motion picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

Crooning: A Collection (1990)

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam War is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

Crooning: A Collection (1990)

Stanley claims that the world is divided up into two kinds of people – those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don’t.

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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