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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe
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Garden
Hoe
People
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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Ignorant
Journalism
People
Thinking
Pedestrian
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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
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Backgrounds
Journalism
Paper
Background
Pen
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
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Believe
Life And Death
Writing
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This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
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Home
Moments
Remember
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Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
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Inspirational
Life
Shells
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It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
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Unusual
Interview
Send
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Book
Thinking
Writing
Chapter
Magazine
Newspaper
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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Assistants
Clerks
News
Rely
Researchers
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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.
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Book
Kind
Pages
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It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
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Men
Dragons
Ice Cream
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You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
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Hate
Machines
Wish
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I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.
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Helping
People
Way
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This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.
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Baby
Grandma
Stars
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These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.
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Home
Smart
Thinking
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Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.
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Love You
People
Thinking
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.
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Porcelain
Wall
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There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
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Laptops
Real
Thinking
Writing
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I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.
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Airports
Phones
Writing
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I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'
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Editors
Magic
Airport
Applauded
Dictated
Phone
Longhand
Plane
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.
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Beautiful
Nuts
Pain
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It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.
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Success
Common
Poor
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Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.
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Boys
Love You
Passion
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.
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Dream
Hard Work
People
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.
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Men
Hatred
People
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.
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Games
Light
Unique
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.
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Dream
Book
Years
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.
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Dream
Morning
Mother
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