Life is brutal that way. . . the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. - Dan Simmons

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And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

Dan Simmons

Life is brutal that way. . . the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

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This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

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What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

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God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.

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And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

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He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except. . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

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There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

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