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The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.


Pink Floyd

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FLOYD SKLOOT Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can an...
FLOYD SKLOOT A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
FLOYD SKLOOT I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
FLOYD SKLOOT I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se...
FLOYD SKLOOT I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the...
FLOYD SKLOOT Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from ...
FLOYD SKLOOT If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind...
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