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"All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
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"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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