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Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.

Ben Fountain

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
I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.
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Ashamed Gaps Littles
I got brilliant stories from people who’d never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who’d published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.
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Feet Fun People
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
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
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
Maybe the light’s at the other end of the tunnel.
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Ends Light Tunnel
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
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Contract Law Quit Took
From about the age of 15 or 16 I’d had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I’d done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it – I wouldn’t call it “talent” – though I wondered if I’d ever have the guts to actually commit to it.
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Age College 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
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.
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Day Honored Worst
Haiti is unique – the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it’s like nothing the world has ever seen.
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Christian Successful Unique
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
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
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

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