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He was filled with terrible knowing: This day had been exactly as empty as the last and tomorrow would be the same. This is what it is to be old, Henry thought.

— Dale Bailey

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You must never run away from the truth, Jake, however unpleasant. Because once you begin running, you can never stop.

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When it comes to death, sex, and money, everybody lies.

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The wall clock ticked, dividing the silence into discrete segments of discomfort.

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All writers are unregenerate thieves, and the ones who deny it are also liars.

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I believed then – and I believe still – that fiction driven by purely ideological goals is likely to be very poor fiction indeed.

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