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Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.

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There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that mu...more

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Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, te...more

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Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write,...more