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Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

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This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

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As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

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Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

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The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

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Thinking you're a genius is death.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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