Gary Lutz quotes
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“If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.”
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“What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.”
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“Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.”
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“You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.”
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“It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“I've been within an inch of my life.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“I was a great many far cries from myself.”
-- Gary LutzSource : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books
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“Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.”
-- Gary Lutz
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