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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Feel Head I Feel Know
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dying New Night Road
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

College Done Field Fire
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Almost Among Cambridge Caricature
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Account Always Another Complicated
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Accolades Anyone Internal Journey
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

Ballot Believe Box Change
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Actually Any Because Church
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly
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Don't let what people say about you define your views of yourself. People's opinion is not credit alert. It doesn't add value or take from you.

Value Credit Define People
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Anything Know Last More
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

Appreciate Follow Make People
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Acceptance Adjustment Age Atom
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

Dangerous Destroy Inadequate Mankind
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Above Against Arising Attack
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Breed People Proud Sad
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Admire Charity Erect Giving
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
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Terror made me cruel.

Cruel Made Me Terror
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art Arts Badly Bearable
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Back Blessing Brought Dead
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Am Artists Arts Been
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Charge Good Made Most
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Bad Bad Ones Good Lies
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