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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,…
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative…
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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into…
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,…
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but…
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it…
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional…
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
— Richard Owen
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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