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" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "

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" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "

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" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "

" People who are obsessed amuse me. "

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" There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions. "

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" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "

" In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength. "

" Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. "

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