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David Guterson

"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."

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Donna Grant

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

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Donna Grant

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

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Donna Grant

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

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Donna Grant

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

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Donna Grant

"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone in this world perform their 'duty'. But when one performs the 'duty' and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world."

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Donna Grant

"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."

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Donna Grant

"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

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Donna Grant

"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."

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David Guterson
"Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together."

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David Guterson
"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block."

Writing

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David Guterson
"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."

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David Guterson
"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."

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David Guterson
"Fiction is socially meaningful."

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David Guterson
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."

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David Guterson
"It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me."

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David Guterson
"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit."

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David Guterson
"I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer."

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David Guterson
"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."

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