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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

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I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Addiction, Call, Choices, Long, Seeking, Time
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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Bluster, Know, Moot, Thinking, Young, Youth

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Activity, Bed, Life, Periods, Sandwiches, Two

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

Liberties, Liberty, Memories, Perhaps, Take, Writing

Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

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That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Creating, Fiction, Live, World
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