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The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.


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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.

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Getting even is one reason for writing.

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The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

William H. Gass

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.

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We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.

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