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"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
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"You can only see God when you notice people."
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"I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit."
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"When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate."
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"You are my universe! I am longing to belong!"
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"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth."
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"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
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"Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!"
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"Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!"
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"We love those to whom we can tell our story."
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"Research by the Income Center for Tradeshows found that people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands. According to the American Management Association, it takes only one-fortieth of a second to create a human bond. Whether you shake someone's hand, squeeze their arm, or touch their shoulder, make these moments count to be remembered favorably."
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"What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now."
Life
"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."
Time
"People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help."
Family
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
Thought
"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."
Fiction
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
Performance
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
Management
"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
Life
"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
People
"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."
Memory
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