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

Ben Fountain

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
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
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
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
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
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
If you want to write, then write; if you don’t want to write, then don’t write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I’d keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.
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Category Decision Writing
Maybe the light’s at the other end of the tunnel.
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Ends Light Tunnel
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.
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Day Honored Worst
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
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
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That’s a great way to freeze up.
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Self Thinking 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
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

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

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