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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
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The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
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