In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.
He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headb… - Anthony Marra
He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headb…
- Anthony Marra
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remembe… - Anthony Marra
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remembe…
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgar… - Anthony Marra
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgar…
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it. - Anthony Marra
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written. - Anthony Marra
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree. - Anthony Marra
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.
My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying t… - Anthony Marra
My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying t…
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that… - Anthony Marra
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that…
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally. - Anthony Marra
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
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