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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."
"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
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