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• John Jeremiah Sullivan:

  There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply

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• John Jeremiah Sullivan:

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  As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

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• John Jeremiah Sullivan:

  The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can s

• John Jeremiah Sullivan:

  The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually

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  Thinking you're a genius is death.

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  I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equa

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  The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and r