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Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

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All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

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Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

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We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

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