The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen.

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