Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.
タグ: want, spawning, retirement, office, nursing-home, hopelessness, hope, dying, duty, career, born

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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
タグ: most, alive, tradition, love
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
タグ: technical, writer, way, time
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
タグ: me, truth, sad, life
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
タグ: more, emotional, children, time
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
タグ: american, admire, writing, work
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