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At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Access Any Aside Fine First Having Institutional Less Libraries Living Making Making A Living Maybe More More Or Less Mostly Push Resources Sometimes Straightforward Teaching Touch Way While Would Writing

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I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Arms Around Beautiful Boy Bull Crushes David East First Gay Had Hair Her Knew Known Many Moved New New York Pit Poet Remember Seeing She Since Sort Swagger Village Walking Wished York I Remember 1990S

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I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

~Alexander Chee

Topics: After Appear Fan First Garden His Ice Might Moody Much Novels Rick State Storm Thought Two Want

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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Acceptance Amherst Came Edgar Fellowship First John Letter Note Offer

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I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Basement Boyfriend Comics Different Dragons Dungeons First Local Maine Met Playing Same Schools Shop Small Small Town Town Were

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The day in 2011 that I went to the office of the city clerk in lower Manhattan with my partner Dustin to register for our domestic partnership was coincidentally also the first day same-sex partners were allowed to register for marriage in the state of New York.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Allowed Also City Clerk Day Domestic First Lower Manhattan Marriage New New York Office Our Partner Partners Partnership Register Same-Sex State Were York

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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Berlin Besides Come First Had Live Search Someplace States United United States

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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: College Could Discovered First Friends Left Maine Met Really Rich State Summer Verb

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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Confirm Contradict Existing First Journalism Law Prejudice Rather Than

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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Bay Casualty First Graveyard Implies Keep Nonsense Out Peace Sick Since Stays Telling Times Truth Truth Is Us War Which

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