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"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."
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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."
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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."
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"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."
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"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
People
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
Life
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
Work
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
Security
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
Pleasure
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
Globalization
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
Books
"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
Reading
"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."
People
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
Fun
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