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Hoboken is a neat place.
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Hoboken
Neat
Place
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Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
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Fun
Writers Block
Writing
Have Fun
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Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.
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Chickens
Uncanny
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All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
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Book
Easy
Writing
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Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.
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Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
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Way
Writing
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Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.
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Mr
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Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
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Animal
Might
Thinking
More Much Than
Animals
Werewolves
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Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.
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Formulas
Math
Trust Me
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I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
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Starting
Writing
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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
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College
Reading
Writing
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If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.
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Dishes
Empires
Pizza
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The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
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Dog
People
Saws
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I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
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Art
Believe
World
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My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.
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Dream
House
Looks
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I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.
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Bagels
Evil
Use
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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Here I Am
People
Thinking
Women I Am Me
Fat
Converted
Women Me I Am
Gee
Surprised
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My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin
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Believe
Parent
Swim
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It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.
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Food
Destiny
Thinking
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Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
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Running
Diabetes
Disease
Greater
Heart
Heart Disease
Numbers
Risk
Fat
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Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.
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Able
Perfect
Remember
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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
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Occupation
Sissy
Trying
Writing
Terribly
Hunt
Seemed
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The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
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Degenerates
Dog
Mama
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I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
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Book
Childhood
Children
Portions
Smell
Taste
Writing
World Me Remember
Childhood World Me
Pleased
Reconstruct
Vividly
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Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!
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Book
Children
Mean
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