Their whole difficult lives seemed not to weigh on them at … - Alexander Chee

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Their whole difficult lives seemed not to weigh on them at all. Taken as mornings and meals, suppers and evenings, all of the world could be carried, both the sad and the delicious, their lives seemed to say.

Alexander Chee

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold me accountable. I let them make me bolder or more modest or louder or more moving, but I ask them to listen, and then write.

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