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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Steve Almond
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Steve Almond
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 27
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But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.
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The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
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If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.
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It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.
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The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.
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