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  1. Lorrie Moore _ Like Life

    He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse

    {A}lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
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  3. Cormac McCarthy _ No Country for Old Men

    Do you know what two centimeters is?Yeah. It's a measurement.It's about three quarters of an inch.All right.That's the distance that round missed your liver by.Is that what the doctor told you?Yes. You know what the liver does?No.It keeps you alive. Do you know who the man is who shot you?Maybe he didnt shoot me. Maybe it was one of the Mexicans.Do you know who the man is?No. Am I supposed to?Becase he's not somebody you really want to know. The people he meets tend to have very short futures. Nonexistent, in fact.Well good for him.
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  4. Iain M. Banks

    They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody.
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  5. Mitch Albom _ For One More Day

    What is it?""A prayer.""For a child?"She nodded."For me?"Another nod."On a tree?""Trees spend all day looking up at God.
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