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"I never wanna write short stories again. They suck. They’re incredibly demanding. A story can be perfect. No novel can be perfect. Novels are awesome. Novels are like us."
That's Juno Diaz, author of the fun, factoid filled novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, from an 11/12/08 interview with the CBC.
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