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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
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Magic
Ponies
Stories
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I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.
Chris Adrian / Author
Men
Good Man
Want
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There are reasons to go on living despite what horrors may come in your life. And love informs those reasons.
Chris Adrian / Author
Despite
Life Love May
Life Love Living
Horrors
Informs
Reasons
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I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.
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Looks
Remember
Spirit
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When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
Chris Adrian / Author
Eye
Giving Up
Writing
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If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.
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Chests
Heart
Said
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The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.
Chris Adrian / Author
Engaged
Science Fiction
Straightforward
Bothering
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I was told by my mother at the age of five that I was going to be a doctor, and that was the end of the conversation. I was presented with a toy stethoscope and told to learn how to use it.
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Doctor
Presented
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I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.
Chris Adrian / Author
Ambition
Circumstances
Life Time Always
Life Time Together
Shakespeare
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My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.
Chris Adrian / Author
Natural
Real
Zombie
Feel
Teachers
Feel More Things
First
Got
His
Incorporated
Natural Tendency
Tendency
Weirder
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Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.
Chris Adrian / Author
Oppression
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Long-Standing
Shakespeare
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After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.
Chris Adrian / Author
Venice
Pretend
Drinks
Merchant
Properly
Recite
School Play
Shakespeare
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But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.
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Blow
Moon
Regret
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It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.
Chris Adrian / Author
Angel
Book
Grace
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It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.
Chris Adrian / Author
Children
Heart
Medicine
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