All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..
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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
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