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Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Certain
Matter
Never Forget
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A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Girl
Boudoir
Might
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Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
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Men
Commodity
Rice
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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Affinity
Certain
Recognise
Useful
Potentially
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There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.
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Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
People
Return
Verbs
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In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Tokyo
Boarding
Japanese
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Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Insidious
Return
Threat
I Am Me People
Begin
Naturally
Me I Am People
Considers
Saying
Verb
Wary
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For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Lawyer
Dustin Hoffman
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The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Brave
Children
Culture
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In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Japan
People More Country
Any Other Country
Bubble
Glass
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I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.
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Autobiography
Realised
Fiction Writer
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Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.
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Ducks
Water
White
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Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Character
Memorable
Reading
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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Blow
English Literature
Investment
Japan
Severe
Banker
Indeed
Intended
Outcome
Proved
Stayed
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The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Air
Available
Faces
Lions
Pool
Resources
Share
Added
Extra
Hole
Watering
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Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Light
Mirrors
Stars
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I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
John Burnham Schwartz / Novelist
Animal
Children
Real
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