June 2010
6 posts
Neither Nor: Blank From Blank Means Blank →
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Or you could, you know, get “good at this” by setting up your own blog for free, build up a body of work, establish a network of contacts, and then patiently wait for monkeys to fly out of your ass. I’m assuming “the compensation will come” by making inquiries and pitches that refer to his…
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it was just that nobody wanted to be without a...
He saw a man coming from the direction of Seventh Avenue. As the man came nearer Sugar saw that he was big, and wearing an old cap and clean starched overalls. But Sugar’s eyes lit on the lunch pail the man was carrying. If he had had a knife, he would have tried to mug the man for his lunch. But he hadn’t been able to borrow a knife. No one had been willing to lend him a knife. It...
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“I know, I know. We’re talking tonight about people who think out of the...”
– Glenn Beck, champion of fiction writers and eluder of sentence construction
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"You just start talking, fast." Joan Rivers on NPR →
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“After a time I discarded the bullet-proof vest I had bought in London. I had...”
– Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So
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“Listen, you write the way you do because you have to, and because it’s who...”
– the late David Markson, in a 2005 interview with Bookslut 