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Continue to ChatIn the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart. - Charles D'Ambrosio from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/in-the-short-stories-if-i-can-make-a-very-lumpy-contrast-in-the-short-stories-i-feel-like-the-lives-of-the