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I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

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Joshua Ferris

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

Fiction, Funny, Hoi, Polloi, Serious, Unwashed
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I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

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You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

Alienate, Course, Courses, Think, Thinking, Way

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

Awareness, Dawn, Ignorance, Remain, Say

I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on one person's struggle with cancer, it wouldn't have been a critical success. So that was a very deliberate decision, to say "Well, if you think it's all fun and games, it's not. " So that was my approach: We're going to have as much fun as I can possibly provide, but the serious things that might normally pass by you are not going to be lost.

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To conform is to lose your soul

Conform, Lose, Soul, Your Soul
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