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    Hilarious.

    How to Write the Great American Novel

    The making-out part is priceless. I was waiting for Edward to make out with Jacob in the Twilight films, personally, but no such luck, .

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    "If you want to write a novel, no one but yourself is stopping you."

    Brilliant.

    "The Great American Novel is inside you, I just know it. Especially if you're Canadian."

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    ROFLOL (I thought we had a smiley for this.)

    Like Harry Potter. What a bore. Hermione was the real hero of all those books. They should have all been called HERMIONE GRANGER SAVES HARRY POTTER’S DUMB ASS AGAIN.

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    Very good. This bit cracked me up:

    Kafka had it right. The bug is much more interesting than boring old Gregor Samsa. No one would want to read a story in which a dude woke up in the morning to find himself transformed into some boring Czech person.
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    Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw

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