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At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
If you could figure out how to live with family then you’d gone a long way toward finding your peace.
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Gone Long Way
I never listen to music when I’m writing.
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Chamber Choral Music Writing
You’d think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people.
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Life Struggle Things Thinking
If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there’s something about the system that’s keeping him from getting his share, then I think he’s well within his rights to fight to change that.
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Fighting Rights Thinking
It’s amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.
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Courses Natural Sticks
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
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Call College Literature Two Writing
The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that’s about the time I started writing decent work.
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Funny Go Letting Things Writing
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
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Honest Trying Writing
I thought when I started writing that I’d have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn’t going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.
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Book Writing Years
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
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Moments Perfection World
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I’ve done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
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Law Quit School Smarter Writing
So many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.
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Another Common Drive Genetics History Protect
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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America Country Giant
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
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Art Real Theater
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly – for about six hours – considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write.
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Consider Hour Law Writing

At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

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