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Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.
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I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be.
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I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
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There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.