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The reason Americans favor milk chocolate over dark is because Milton Hershey got his bars into enough American mouths to establish our collective taste. -- Steve Almond
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Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This -- Steve Almond
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Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be. -- Steve Almond
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Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again. -- Steve Almond
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The record is not simply a storage device. Its value resides in the particular set of memories and emotional associations held by its owner. These are inseparable from the physical object, which is no longer a physical object but an article of faith. -- Steve Almond
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There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers -- Steve Almond
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We need books ... because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. -- Steve Almond
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I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness. -- Steve Almond
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I myself despise "Macarena," and yet I have been humming it for the past three days and my two-year-old daughter is now humming it and I'm pretty sure she will never stop. -- Steve Almond
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We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love. -- Steve Almond
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20a. What You Should Be Writing About

Anything you can't get rid of by other means. -- Steve Almond
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This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad. -- Steve Almond
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We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves. -- Steve Almond
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At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. -- Steve Almond
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music came before anything else, before language and large-scale war and liquid soap, and because music is the one giant thing America has done right, amid all it has done wrong. Music, that ancient and incorruptible bitch. -- Steve Almond
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This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth. -- Steve Almond
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The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens. -- Steve Almond
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We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie. -- Steve Almond
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Retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into -- Steve Almond
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... writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them. -- Steve Almond
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Hey, Dad, check this out!" Ike stared at the boy. He clearly wanted to be down there watching his kid possibly crack his skull open, rather than recording a song about how frightened he was that his kids might crack their skulls open. -- Steve Almond
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Boyle looked like a Monty Python in drag. Then she opened her mouth and this epic noise came ripping out of her. Within a week, she was the most celebrated person on earth, an -- Steve Almond
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When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What -- Steve Almond
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More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era. -- Steve Almond
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If you're wondering if you're a collector, ask yourself two questions. Do I own too many records? Do my friends and family feel I own too many records? If your respective answers are No and Yes, you're a Collector. -- Steve Almond
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Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days, but in the whirl of memories? -- Steve Almond
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At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? -- Steve Almond
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The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. -- Steve Almond
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It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. -- Steve Almond
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A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are. -- Steve Almond
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To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. -- Steve Almond
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It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His -- Steve Almond
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I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. -- Steve Almond
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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. -- Steve Almond
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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. -- Steve Almond
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This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. -- Steve Almond
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. -- Steve Almond
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Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder. -- Steve Almond
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Styx has become the mullet of bands. -- Steve Almond
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The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you. -- Steve Almond
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God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence. -- Steve Almond
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All language is an aspiration to music. -- Steve Almond
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Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. -- Steve Almond
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They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed) -- Steve Almond
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There is a point you reach, I mean, when you are just something bad that happened to someone else. -- Steve Almond
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But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up. -- Steve Almond
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In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ... -- Steve Almond
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By attempting to "write bad" for twenty minutes, they'd somehow managed to produce remarkable work.
From AWP - The Writer's Notebook -- Steve Almond
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it was off to the library, where people went before God invented the Internet and -- Steve Almond
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The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. -- Steve Almond