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Nelson Algren
“I once heard two junkies arguing about my book, and finally one guy says, “If he really knew what he was talking about, he couldn't write the book, he'd be out in the can.”
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BENJAMIN PERCY, “ME VS. ANIMALS”

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The Pike
Nicolai Lilin

When I was small I didn’t care about toys. What I liked doing when I was four or five was prowling around the house to see if my grandfather or my uncle were taking their weapons apart to clean them. They were constantly doing this, with the utmost care and devotion. My uncle used to say weapons were like women—if you didn’t caress them enough they’d grow stiff and betray you.



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