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Lucy Corin

"I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent."

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Lucy Corin

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“Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.”
“The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.”
“Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.”
“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”
“I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.”
“Thereâ€™s a good kind of crazy, Kaylee,â€ he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. â€œItâ€™s the kind that makes you think about things that make your head hurt, because not thinking about them is the cowardâ€™s way out. The kind that makes you touch people who bruise your soul, just because they need to be touched. This is the kind of crazy that lets you stare out into the darkness and rage at eternity, while it stares back at you, ready to swallow you whole.”
“No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.”

Source : Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)
“I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!”

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