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I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

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Jess Walter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 20
Author
Journalist
Novelist
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Spokane
Washington
Fatherhood
Dad
Sacrifice
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Power
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Life
Nineteen

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A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.
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I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
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Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.
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He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
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And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
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He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.
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All we have is the story we tell.
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