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Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.
Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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