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"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."
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"My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'"
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"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."
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"As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection."
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"I can ski out of my back door."
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"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."
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"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
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"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds."
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"As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living."
Time

"Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them."
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"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."
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"For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work."
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"The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm."
Hope

"I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about."
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"People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week."
People

"Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people."
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"I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel."
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