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If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

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Jim Shepard

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

Fiction, Read, Reading, Spend, Want

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The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.

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What makes us threaten the things we want most?

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It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

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I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

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She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.

Breakup, Castles, Figured, Good, Reason, Years

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