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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.

~Carolyn Chute

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You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

~Carolyn Chute

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I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.

~Carolyn Chute

Topics: Am Any Blank Classroom Confused Crowded Get Income Interrupted Living Make Novels Only Out Person Public Room Teach Way Who Writing I Am

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People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

~Carolyn Chute

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With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.

~Carolyn Chute

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People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.

~Carolyn Chute

Topics: About Beautiful Been Dairy Factories Farm Fascinated Found Interested Just Like Live Lives Maybe People Seemed Them Were Who Woods Work Writing Years

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My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

~Carolyn Chute

Topics: Back Bread Bring Good However Humanity Like Mostly Out Overweight People Turned

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Your community is your survival.

~Carolyn Chute

Topics: Community Survival Your

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Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.

~Carolyn Chute

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When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.

~Carolyn Chute

Topics: Begin Beings Better Come Each Face Human Human Beings Other People Understand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 14th, 1947

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