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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
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"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."
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"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."
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"The preparation I had in college was the most valuable."
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"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone."
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"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
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"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."
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"Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back."
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"If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher."
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"I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years."
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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
College
"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Life
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
Life
"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life
"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
Writing
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
Creativity
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Life
"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."
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