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John Jeremiah Sullivan is an American writer born in 1974. His work is known for its unique narrative style and profound insights into American culture.

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“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordtensionhas an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”

Writing Littles Long Doe Ends Matter Fall Next House Animal Pieces Reader Ideals Sentences Tension Length Interiors Rope Insistence Gauges Rise And Fall Does It Matter

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“Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.”

World Firsts Happens First Time Things Happen Freaky

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“Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.”

Thinking Complicated Reminders

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“Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”

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“At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”

Want Might Reader Concepts Temptation Choir

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“Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.”

Ends Father Office Ireland Desks Basements Albany

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“This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.”

Looks Reason Christian Lines Behinds Doors Logical Locks Adages Behind You

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“It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”

Facts Curious Essayists

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“The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.”

Cities Rivers Bars Islands Shops Urban Cork

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“We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.”

Moments Past Constant Abyss

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“The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.”

Ifs Seems Guy White Results Rocks Hair Rap Over It Justification Tattoo Overweight White Guys

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“I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.”

Things To Do Just Saying

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“What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.”

Needs Old Fashioned Reborn

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“I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Looks Kind Enough Happens Able Faces Guy Situation Moral Empathy Stations Bus Heroism

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“A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.”

Want Asks Good Writers Good Faith

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“One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.”

People Thinking Writing Important Groups Serious Personality Hunger Obsession Manage Best Things Fascinating Midst Quests Skepticism Collecting Make You Think Collectors

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Born: 1974
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