The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
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I'm very conscious of working from memory but I also know that someone else who was there at the same moment would write something different about it.
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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
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