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““« Voyez-vous, d’après mon expérience, c’est quand on a l’impression de ne pas progresser qu’on avance sans doute le plus. »””

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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like…

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If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

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I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married…

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Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

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“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”

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Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

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In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff…

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There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should…

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