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Real memories intrude now and then as do self-admonitions for a wasted life, but the smoke’s other feature is that it lets you not give a shit about anything but taking in more smoke.

— Jeffrey Ford The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

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He kneels and prays to heaven but nothing happens.

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Nothing is more comforting to people than to have their certainties trumpeted back to them in bold, clear typeface.

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You are no more nor less than any man—a hungry heart and a wavering will.

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They’ve told so many lies in their lives that they’ve run out and can now tell only the truth.

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What good is the illusion of fiction if it cannot show us a way to become the people we need to be?

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