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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
- Everyday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
- Both
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- Nov 07, 2020
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.
- Boxers
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.
- Booths
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
- Metaphor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
- Farming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.
- Good
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