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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At the time, it seemed that Haiti was on the cusp of a new era.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans care a lot about authenticity, rightly so. Every election is a quest for the genuine article. This is precisely what makes the long con of American politics such a rich and mystifying study.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It's spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible - at least, until the other team scores.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
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- Nov 07, 2020