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We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

Anthony Marra
Children, Emotional, Light
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Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Anthony Marra
Meaningful
Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.54, Random House

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Anthony Marra
Definitions, Bugs, Exclusion

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Anthony Marra
Four, Fists, Language

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

Anthony Marra
Hands, Earth, Ends

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

Anthony Marra
Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Anthony Marra
Coward, Biographies, Said

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Anthony Marra
Sister, Bed, Rooms

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Anthony Marra
Stupid, Maps, Want
Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.106, Random House

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Anthony Marra
Sleep, Suffering, Causes

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Anthony Marra
Writing, Laughing, Paper
Source: therumpus.net

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