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Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
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Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Art
Alone
Hard Work
Spring
Art Work Hard Work
Alone Work Art
Muses
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
End Of Life
Ends
Memories
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Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Forget
Overrated
Remember
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I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Precocious
Reader
Everybody Else
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People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs
Tom Rachman / Novelist
People
Products
Turns
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Black And White
Old Movies
Rent
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Fiction
Hours
Journalist
Training
Useful
Fiction Writer
Extraordinarily
Thousands
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My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Agency
Fast Paced
Time Where New
Associated
Rarely
Reporting
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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Paradox
Romance
Affections
Held
News Business
Noticed
Stirred
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What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Art World
Boundaries
Expanding
Pushing
Territory
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Journalism
Toronto
Nearly
Entered
News Business
Notions
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories
Tom Rachman / Novelist
End Of Life
Illusion
Memories
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Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Conclusion
Elements
Finish
Obituaries
Proper
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Birth
Nonsense
Silly
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I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Film School
If I Could
Nyu
Study
Theory
Toronto
University
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My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Journalism
Thrilling
Drawn
Eventually
Gain
Hoped
Intent
No Question
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There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Aggressive
Shocking
Drawn
Encounter
Even Worse
Extroverted
Journalists
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I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Conviction
Journalism
Triumphant
Battles
Reporter
Ideal
Journalists
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Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Book
Meditation
Reading
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Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Ashamed
Meditation
Pretend
Embarrass
Memoirs
Slightly
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I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Same Thing
Talked
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Common
Defense
Reading
Life Best Death
Condition
Among
Article
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The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Accustomed
Newspapers
Initially
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Fighting
Pages
Swimming
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Comment
Devoted
Editors
Factual
Hypocrisy
Laughing
Liberty
Mock
Outlets
Reporters
Satirical
Journalists
Observe
Strictly
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Careers
Deceased
Facts
Journalist
Loved Ones
Past
Print
Surprise
Writing
Dreaded
Equally
In Print
Necessary
Recently
Relatives
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At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Frustration
Inspiration
Moments
Notion
Pages
Toss
Rise
Fill
Outset
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Men
Ambition
Love Life
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The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!
Tom Rachman / Novelist
Time Work Done
Approximately
Copy
Editor
Full-Time
Work Time Way
Returning
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