Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine. - Donald Hall

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Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Donald Hall

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

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Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

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If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

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Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

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In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

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