Thirteen years I took on this last book.

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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

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News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

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The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

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