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I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.
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The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.
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Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.
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I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
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...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself.
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There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
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I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not explain coherently, that for some years the South and particularly the Gulf Coast had been for America what people were still saying California was, and what California seemed to me not to be: the future, the secret source of malevolent and benevolent energy, the psychic center.
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Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.
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