"For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction.""

-- John D'Agata

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“I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.”
“If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.”
“Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out”
“Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.”
“Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.”
“Donald Trump has been very clear that he's committed to NATO. But he's also been very clear - and I think in a right and proper way - that our allies need to step up to the plate with their investment spending, et cetera. And I think the allies have gotten that message.”
“We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy”
“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.”

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