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The answer to that can be found in
another question, and that's this:
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Which is the most universal
human characteristic--
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fear or laziness?
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What are you writing?
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A novel.
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What's the story?
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There's no story.
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It's just...
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people, gestures,
moments,
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bits of rapture,
fleeting emotions.
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In short,
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the greatest stories
ever told.
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Are you in the story?
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I don't think so.
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But then I'm kind of reading it
and then writing it.
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It was in the middle of
the desert, in the middle of nowhere,
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but on the way to Vegas,
so, you know,
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every once in a while
a car would pull in, get gas.
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It was the last gas stop
before Vegas.
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Office had the chair,
had a cash register,
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and that was all the room
there was in that office.
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I was asleep,
and I heard a noise.
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You know,
just like in my mind.
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So I got up, and I walked out,
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and I stood on the curb of
where the gas station ends,
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you know, the driveway there.
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I'm rubbing the sand out of my eyes,
trying to see what's going on,
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and way down at the very end
of the gas station...
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they had tire racks.