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Guy Gavriel Kay

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

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Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

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As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

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When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

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I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

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Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

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It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

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Rick Santorum

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Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

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We can love ourselves by loving the earth.

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Michael Keaton

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We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.

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