You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction–no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy’s disgust. Jonathan Franzen
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  1. Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
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  5. It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
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