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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing…

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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the…

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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually…

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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2…

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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection…

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Ian Fleming

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

James Boswell

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

Elias Canetti

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

Arthur Eddington

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

Adolf Hitler

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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