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"The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around."
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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."
Books
"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
Literature
"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love."
Love
"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
Career
"The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around."
Memory
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
Expectation
"Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another."
Nerd
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."
Art
"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there."
Love
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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"The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished."
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"If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused..."
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"People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret."
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"Hatred can't erase love memories.You need to focus on anything else."
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