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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Becomes Been Circle Enter Getting Getting Older Living Making Making A Living Older People Pleasures Social Want Way Who You Your

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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Accustomed Along Bringing Chili Cuisine Ease Exotic Familiar Flavors Foods Fussy Hassle Holiday Home Joe Kinds Little Mean Nepal New Rejecting Sampling Supply Sure Uncle Vacation Whether Your

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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Act Anxiety Difficult Difficulty Me Most Place Procrastination Takes Thinking Writing

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Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Breaks Day Dictated Else Endurance Every Every Day Go Hit Job Largely Lot Muses Novels Patience Something Something Else Take Things Think Through Treat Try Walls While Writing I Think

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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Always Around Back Buy Came Come Cool Expensive Fantasies Funk Go Great Hopeless How Jazz Know Labels Nerd Now Obscure Out Rare Really Record Records Time Time Travel Tiny Travel Would Year You Your

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Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Adding Again Books Children Crave Dialogue Dude End Every Find Grown Holiday Kid Line Listening Over Read Routine Same Soothing Stories Times Try Weary You Your

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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Almost Cannot Cause Common Comprehend Connect Deep Desire Empathize Experienced Fervent Find Generation Kind Level Love Mystical Next Next Generation Other Parents Poor Possibly Preserve Protect Some Souls Supposed Theory Those Who World

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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Always Any Culture Definition Eccentric Fascinating Hip-Hop Me Secretive Way Were Writers

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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Been Being Family Generations Identify Jewish Observant

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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Attachment Brother Hard Imagine New Novel Novels Open Sent Time Up Work You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 1st, 1976

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