I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will … - Emma Donoghue

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I'm a constitutional conservative. I'm a Reagan constitutional conservative. I can think of no three better words to describe my political philosophy. And I will remain a Reagan constitutional conservative. It doesn't matter to what the elites D. C. think in the Republican or the Democratic Party

Emma Donoghue

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

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Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you. " I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

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It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

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