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"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
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"The world system is employment."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"
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"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
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