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"There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler."
"I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value."
"I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older- I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid."
"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."
"I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream."
"Every person is born for a reason, you really need to know yours."
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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."
"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."
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