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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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