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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
"I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road."
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
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"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road."
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"But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road."
"Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
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