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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.
- Animal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020