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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.

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    “The writer should never take anything for granted, not formulations or words or reality.” —David Grossman

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    “I think the major axis of life is a sexual one. The music changes but the dance is always the same.” —James Salter

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    “People are much too solemn about things. I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.” —Aldous Huxley

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    “Love is not my bag. I was debagged at twenty-five and turned to sex and art.” —Gore Vidal

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    “Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.” —Martin Amis

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    “Well, fuck the plot! That is for precocious schoolboys. What matters is the imaginative truth.” —Edna O'Brien

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    “I believe narrative knows better than we all do.” —Luisa Valenzuela

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    “What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.” —Mary McCarthy

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    “Drunks ramble; so do books by drunks.” —John Irving

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    “I really want stories that are rippers in the old sense. Tales of high danger, high adventure.” —Barry Hannah

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  12. 18 hours ago

    This week's staff picks from “The Paris Review.”

    4:38 PM - 21 Aug 2015 · Details
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    “Pranks, the inexplicability of comedy can sometimes be the only way you can move forward.” —Thomas McGuane

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    “You can read? All right, tell me what my books mean. Astonish me.” —Bernard Malamud

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    “For me violent moments are always existential moments. They are crucial.” —Norman Mailer

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    “I always liked people who were older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.” —Fran Lebowitz

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    “I have beliefs, of course, like everyone—but I don’t always believe in them.” —Joyce Carol Oates

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    “Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.” —Eudora Welty

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    “Because of prevalent skepticism of our time people don't have the courage of their convictions.” —Rosamond Lehmann

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    To be hangry is a luxury.

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    “One learns who one is and it is at one's peril that one attempts to become someone else.” —John Barth

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