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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
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I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was…
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He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and…
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be…
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I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models…
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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it,…
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I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul…
— Lou Rawls
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To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my…
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I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and…
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When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
— Amanda Hocking
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I learned French before I learned Spanish.
— Eva Longoria
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Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I…
— Jane Smiley
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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love…
— Andy Warhol
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