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“It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.”

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“They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as…

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“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and…

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This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

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It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

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