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" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "
Lydia Millet
Write
Lighthearted
Friendly
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" Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. "
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" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "
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" In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim. "
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" I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing. "
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" In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. "
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" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "
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" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "
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" No one bought my screenplays. "
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" When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program. "
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" I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. "
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Outdoors
Sky
" I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking. "
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Day
Focus
" We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.' "
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You
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" I love irony. "
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Irony
" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "
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Not Interested
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" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "
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Culture
Ideal
" On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it. "
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People
Changes
" I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course. "
Lydia Millet
Go
Wanted
Write
" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "
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I Think
Think
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" The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing. "
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" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "
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" When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults. "
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" You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! "
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" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "
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Delicate
Seek
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" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "
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" The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures. "
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" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "
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