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Would-be Novelists Need To Bring Equal Parts Arrogance And Ignorance To The Task Before Them. The Arrogance Is Almost Self-explanatory. Walk Into Any Bookstore Or Library, Calculate How Many Lifetimes The Average Person Would Need To Read All The Fiction Contained Therein. To Think That One Has Anything To Contribute, To Any Genre Or Tradition, Takes Genuine Hubris.

How Magnanimous Was A Gesture If One Were Constantly Aware Of Its Magnanimity?

Stinginess Seemed Instinctive To Him. Darwinian Even. He Hadn't Gotten To His Current Size By Sharing.

I'm At The Age Most People Are Sending Their Kids Off To College.

Anyone Can Love A Perfect Place. Loving Baltimore Takes Some Resilience.