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Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

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It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

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I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

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The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

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There's always a source for humor.

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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

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