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I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog's bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked, the very next thing I do is write. It's mechanical. It's programming, very nearly brainwashing.

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I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

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I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

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I think it's a belief that you can learn something. That's something that I really value from the upbringing I got.

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So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.

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It's very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you're a good person when the people who know you best don't.

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I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

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I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of poetry, it's a book of principle, it's a book of stories, and of myths and of epic tales, a book of histories and a book of fictions, of riddles, fables, parables and allegories.

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Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church.

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I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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