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It’s amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Ben Fountain

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
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
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
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Looks Writing Years
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
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
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
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
I kept going back while I was writing the novel – which never sold, may it rest in peace – and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.
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Connection Peace Rest Writing
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
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
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
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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Certain Felt Keep Pleasure Points
Maybe the light’s at the other end of the tunnel.
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Ends Light Tunnel
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.
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Eye World Writing
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
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

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