"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."

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"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."

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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

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"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."

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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

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