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"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

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"We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona."

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"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."

"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."

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"Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together."

"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."

"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."

"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
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