Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

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He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

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All The Pretty Horses.

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We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.

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I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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