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“I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.”

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Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is an American writer renowned for her concise and profound short stories. Her work often delves into themes of interpersonal relationships, loneliness, and death, earning her acclaim from readers and critics alike. more

“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.”

People Thinking Helping Body Pain Talking Exercise Weight Oneself Contrary Muscles Unconscious Strain Doom Weariness Dodge

Book:The Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend

“If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?”

Ifs Dies Alive Return Ghost Temptation Fright Guise

Book:A Temple of Texts

Source: A Temple of Texts

“The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.”

Men Littles Fiction Loneliness Bears Easier Exceptional General Public

Author:Samuel R. Delany

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