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When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

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I do some eccentric dancing.

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I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

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To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

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I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

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Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

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Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

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We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 4th, 1941

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