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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Actual Become Distracting Lonely Long Myself Mysterious Pastime Sufficiently Two Ways Work Writing

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Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Associations Become Beginning College Develop Distributed Entire Era Linger Middle Middle School Missing Often Pages School Short Short Stories Stories Things Through

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For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Almost Collections Enjoyed Like Long Long Time Look Meant Meant To Be Novels Precisely Same Since Story Time Way Were

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A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Chunk Clear Even Good Good Parts Halfway Know Least Maps More Narrative Novel Onto Parts Possibly Quite Say Some Through Will You

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A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded 'ReSTART' in what, until then, had been Rae's house.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Along Been Cash Founded Had House Named Social Then Therapist Until Worker

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Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Age Arms Band Bright Coat Eyes Freshman Handwriting High High School Listen Love Motto Ought Past Read School Scribble Shame Sometimes Think Tortured Us Who Would I Think

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I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Admit Appealing Brain Bright Devoted Emotional Eyes Handful Having Know Loving Other Region Regret Self-Pity Sentimentality States Very Well

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I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Another Fifty Love Me Page Room Saul Something To Love Wandered Within Would

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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Biological Hate Musicians People Some Some People Those Visceral Way

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If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: About Author Bets Book Bottom Come Fatherhood List Most Moving Philip Placing Were Which Would Write You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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