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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

Kevin Brockmeier
Stars, Pain, Joy
Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

Kevin Brockmeier
Knowing, Rose, Joy
Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

Kevin Brockmeier
Boys, Laughing, Kind
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I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Kevin Brockmeier
Believe, Good Things, Ready
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In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.

Kevin Brockmeier
Thinking, People, Feelings
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I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

Kevin Brockmeier
Thinking, Opposites, Confusion
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What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

Kevin Brockmeier
Writing, Long, Effort
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