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Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

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I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

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I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

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The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.

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Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.

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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.

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I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

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Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.

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People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence.

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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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