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- Family
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My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.
- Escaped
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
- Dad
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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
- Cannot
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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
- Escape
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There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
- Living
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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
- Creation
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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
- Best Intentions
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
- Human
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I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.
- Love
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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
- Magic
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
- Nature
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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
- Me
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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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- Nov 07, 2020