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But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
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There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth
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I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.
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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
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Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.
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They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
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Toph does not know the words, and I know few of the words, but you cannot fucking stop us from singing
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I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.
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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
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'When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted.'
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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'
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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
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Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
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- Mr. Churchill you were given a mission. - Yes - I want to have been given your mission. I want your place in world events, the centrality of it. You were born in the cradle of a catapult! - You are wrong. I found my mission. - I disagree. - If you must. - Tell me: where is my mission? Where are my bunkers and trenches, my goddamn Gallipoli?
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Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
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Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. 'YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!' he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.
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I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.
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We’d have a motherfucking shitload of dogs! Horses. Peacocks. Oh to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be made geniuses waiting to take over everything.
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