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One Thing's Sure And Nothing Surer. The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get- Children

The Woman Doesn't Look Up. It's As If She's Deaf. Maybe She Is. Maybe She's Like The Cambodian Women I've Read About, The Ones Who Witnessed So Many Atrocities That They Have Willed Themselves Blind. Maybe That's What You Have To Do Sometimes To Survive. You Kill Off Part Of Yourself, Your Hearing Or Eyesight, Your Capacity For Hope.

Don't Love Anything That Can Be Taken Away.

I Usually Do At Least A Dozen Drafts And Progressively Make More-conscious Decisions. Because I've Always Believed Stories Are Closer To Poems Than Novels, I Spend A Lot Of Time On The Story's Larger Rhythms, Such As Sentence And Paragraph Length, Placement Of Flashbacks And Dialogue.

It’s Ever Been The Way Of The Man Of Science Or Philosophy. Most Folks Stay In The Dark And Then Complain They Can’t See Nothing.” – Snipes (185)