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

Ben Fountain

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
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 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
Maybe the light’s at the other end of the tunnel.
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Ends Light Tunnel
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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America Country Giant
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
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
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
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
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 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
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
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
Late bloomer’ is another way of saying ‘slow learner.
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Late Learners Way
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
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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