Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
-Kurt Vonnegut

I have always been a man of contradictions. While it is true that I chop lumber and wrestle bears during the day, only to be tended to by fine young virgin maidens who feed me grapes at night, I am also a deeply conflicted and frequently emotional person.

No, I’m not saying that I cry, whimper, and kick my tiny Asian legs comically about like a little girl. I am saying that I have always yearned to just be myself, but I also have always wanted to be accepted.

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