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My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.
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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
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Charity is love; not all love is charity.
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Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.
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[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
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I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.
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Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
