"My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations."
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"It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about."
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"All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too."
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"'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'"
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"It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
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"Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't."
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"He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes."
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"We were just looking at ideas of each other."
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"She fell apart because that's what happens."
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"Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?"
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"Is the labyrinth living or dying?"
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"If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me."
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"Love is just a shout in the void."
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"I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books."
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"Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate."
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"I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together."
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"Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot."
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"I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about."
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"We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'"
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"The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness."
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