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• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just…
• Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
• Life is accepting what is and working from that.
• One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
• Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point…
• Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that…
• Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
• Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
• There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…
• Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
• You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

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