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"Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you."

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Having a job is being busy."

"Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny."
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"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."

"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."

"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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