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My earliest memories of going to Fenway with my father are a blur: many games, me too young to care, but aware that our team 'stunk.' In those years, the 1960s, the Red Sox baseball card I always coveted most was not Carl Yastrzemski's but the far more ordinary Felix Mantilla's.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Always Aware Baseball Blur Card Care Earliest Earliest Memories Far Father Games Going Many Me Memories More Most Ordinary Our Red Red Sox Sox Team Those Too Years Young 1960S

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In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.

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Topics: Categories Category Discourse Human Immigrants Just Less Mostly Policy Prisons Problem Than

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I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Anyway Because Claim Fiction Form Liked Memoir Memory Narrative Never Once Purely Realm Tend Think Writing You

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When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Been Blatant Injustice Keep Kid Little Little Kid Quiet See Since Way I See

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What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: About Career Could Different Different Places Important Lot Me Never Places Reached Really Ways Writing Young

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'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Anything Aura Book Except Expected Had Her Name Never Say Thought Trying Wanted Write

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I think the fact that my wife died in Mexico City makes it very important to me; my life went up in smoke at that moment, the family and the future we were going to have. At that point, I was anchored to the city in a way I've never been anchored to a place before.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Anchored Been Before City Died Fact Family Future Going Important Life Makes Me Mexico Moment My Life Never Place Point Smoke Think Up Very Way Were Wife I Think

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The U.S., like any other country, allows tourists into its borders in order to make money off them, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why give out tourist visas if you're not going to let tourists be tourists?

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Any Any Other Country Borders Country Give Going Like Make Money Nothing Off Order Other Out Them Tourist Tourists Why Wrong You

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You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Becomes Journalist Lot Part Witness You

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My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

~Francisco Goldman

Topics: Anything Me Only Processing Way Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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