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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
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Disappear
Gun
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People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
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Narrative
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Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
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March
Naturally
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The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.
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Registration
Implication
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Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
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Brilliant
Encounter
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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
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New York City
Unfortunate
City Me New
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Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.
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Adaptation
Colossal
Pretend
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To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
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Human Life
Snuff
Life Respect Me
Begins
Designed
Inanimate
Object
Obtain
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A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
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Generations
Good Story
Sides
Endlessly
Readers
Remade
Resonant
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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
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Preference
Species
Allied
Breed
Creature
Hand
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A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
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Birth
Surgery
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Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.
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Waiting
Imperial
Note
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The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
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Girl
Apartment
East
First Time
Wanted
Writer
Street
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Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.
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Constant
Pacing
Beforehand
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My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
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Affectionate
English Language
Invited
Uninvited
Vicious
Acute
Guest
Mastered
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Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
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Prose
Supreme
Assistant
Editorial
Literary
Lowly
Novelist
Reigned
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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
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Glorious
Prose
Disparage
Neither
Verbal
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When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
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Plot
Satisfying
Obligations
Prevent
Uniquely
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
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Cambridge
Markers
Aged
Coloured
Convey
Diary
Event
Graduating
Occasion
Returned
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Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
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Assuming
Fascination
Rotten
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As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
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Adversity
Compulsion
Formidable
Rise
Appear
Crumble
Grown
Indeed
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Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
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Irony
Attains
Breed
Central
Relinquish
Simultaneously
Struck
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I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.
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Faces
Papers
Smart People
Examples
Nose
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The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.
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Committed
Fewer
Site
Thames
Collection
Archaeological
Longest
Museum
Recovered
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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
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Awards
Choreography
Me People Care
Version
Tony
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I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.
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Life Men Women
Effectively
Exactly What
Life Women Men
Noting
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My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.
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Admission
Fourth
Subjects
Adapt
Calls
Intensely
Screenwriter
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