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If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

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If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

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My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

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An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

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I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.

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Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

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I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 2nd, 1963

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