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- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
- E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out…
- I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs.…
- One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
- The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want…
- The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable…
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