literary quotes
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100 days 100 short stories:: story 41
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Leaving Maverly author: Alice Munro year: 2011 where: kitchen table, before dinner note: a story I’ve started four times, a story I’ve been interrupted while reading three times a line: “There was something in her, he told Isabel, something that made her want to absorb whatever you said to her, instead of just being thrilled or…
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100 days 100 short stories:: story 40
Samantha Neugebauer
story: A Permanent Member of the Family author: Russell Banks year: 2013 where: taxi ride home note: reading American writers during this week of sadness for America a line: “So when one loses it prematurely, in childhood and adolescence, through divorce or the sudden early death of a parent or, more usually, war, it can leave one fixated…