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I do jump behind the bar when we're really busy, but by that point I've usually drunk too much to work.

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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

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Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

Angel, Day, Good Day, Mean, Said, Things

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

Damn, Inch, Love, Love You, Moving, World

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

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In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.

Clings, Common, Doctors, Missing, Past, Weather
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