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" I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. "
Dave Eggers
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" But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. "
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" I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. "
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" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "
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" When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. "
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" When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. "
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" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "
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" I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. "
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" Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. "
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" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "
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" Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. "
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" Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. "
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" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "
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