"In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out."

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Achy Obejas

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“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.”
“I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.”
“There are so many clichÃ©s in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.”
“My family was my guide to my reality.”

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“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”
“Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.”
“It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.”
“I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.”

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