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Adam Haslett quotes: The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.

The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.

Adam Haslett quotes: I'm the only one who doesn't always want answers.

I'm the only one who doesn't always want answers.

Adam Haslett quotes: My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

Adam Haslett quotes: The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

Adam Haslett quotes: We live among the dead until we join them,

We live among the dead until we join them,

Adam Haslett quotes: I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We

I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We

Adam Haslett quotes: He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.

He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.

Adam Haslett quotes: As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Adam Haslett quotes: he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

Adam Haslett quotes: It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Adam Haslett quotes: Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Adam Haslett quotes: Discovery is the joy.

Discovery is the joy.

Adam Haslett quotes: Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over

Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over

Adam Haslett quotes: There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.

There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.

Adam Haslett quotes: I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.

Adam Haslett quotes: ...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

Adam Haslett quotes: There was just the sensation of it. A

There was just the sensation of it. A

Adam Haslett quotes: It's easy to make too much of fathers, I want to say. A

It's easy to make too much of fathers, I want to say. A

Adam Haslett quotes: Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.

Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.