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• What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Writing, Long, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Unity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Powerful, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Perfect, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me off so badly it haunted me for 25 years. But I had to wait to be a good enough writer to give Ida her voice back. And I had to go get my own first too. I not only know the case study inside and out, like most women, I lived a version of it. Maybe it's time for us to tell our versions.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Years, Voice, Hysteria

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Religious, Brother

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

  Matt Nathanson

  Party, Kind, Stage

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.

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• A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.

  Bent Saether

  Song, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

  William Finnegan

  Differences, Profound, Events

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that the U.S. is not in conflict with "Palestine" (quotes are theirs) and second, that Conflict Kitchen should counter the Palestinian viewpoints it presents with pro-Israeli viewpoints, otherwise we are spreading dangerous propaganda.

  Jon Rubin

  Community, Kitchen, Criticism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Too Much, Truthful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Want, Tone

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

  Elliott Colla

  Two, Trying, Doing You

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Fun, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

  Valerie June

  Different, Tennessee, Waltz

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.

  Jory John

  War, Educational, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Book, Different, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Fighting, Wmd

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Different, Bears, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the best example of someone who is systematically misread because he can be hilarious. In his poems, as in all great funny poems, the humor is one very appealing version of the surprise and associative movement that is at the heart of all poetry.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Heart, Movement, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Real, Home, Comfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Heart, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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