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The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Almost Along Away Beaches Beauty Becomes Blue Clearly Coast Dark Each Flashes Forests Live Maine Moved Now Occasional Pine Really Return Rocky Sand See Somehow Stillness Stone Vivid Water While White You

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Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

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Topics: Each Fate Feeling History Mirrors Other Similar Weird

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When I'm identified as a fiction writer at parties, the question comes pretty quickly. 'Did you go to school for it?' someone asks. 'Yes,' I say. 'Where?' they ask, because I don't usually offer it. 'I went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop,' I say.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Ask Because Did Fiction Fiction Writer Go Identified Iowa Offer Parties Pretty Question Quickly Say School Someone Where Workshop Writer Writers Yes You

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The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Autumn Ball Beginning Garden Held Palace Soprano Still Used Warm Well Year

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Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, often with middle initials, the 'rusticators,' as they were known then, the first of our wealthy out-of-state visitors.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Eastern First Founded Initial Known Men Middle National National Park Often Our Park Rich Then Visitors Wealthy Were Wilson Woodrow Wilson

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I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Arranged Arrived Bookstore Courtesy Different Employee Francisco Had Job Light Lived Love Man Me Move New New York San San Francisco Stay Store Summer Then Transfer Two Waiting Well Who Worked Would Years York

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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Agent Also Become Chaos Could Enemy Fiction Friend Going Important Incredibly Inside Just Know Make Nightmare Old Old Friend Parties People Pleasurable Qualities Quality Run Them Why You

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I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Adult Became Being Emotional Far Favorite Favorite Things Interested Life Losing Loved Male Me Moment My Life Never Profound Singing Soprano Things Thus Very Voice

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I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Autobiographical Down Edinburgh Five Novel Sat Sell Took Try Two Write Years

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If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Another Compromise Fail Failures Feeling Kind Least Succeed Then Two You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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