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Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
Ben Marcus
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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
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My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
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Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
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My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.
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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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