- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Gravely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to music constantly while writing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buy way too many books.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
- General Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
- Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
- Nov 07, 2020