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Quotes by Writer
"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free."
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"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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"To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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"The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over."
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"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
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"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
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"I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective."
Want,
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"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
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"The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity."
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"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
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"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
Sin,
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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
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"She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal."
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"You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches."
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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
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"I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key."
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"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
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"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
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"Few artists can afford artistic temperament."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
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