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Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
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Wilmington
Delaware
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Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
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I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
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Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
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One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
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I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
Julianna Baggott
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
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My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
Julianna Baggott
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
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When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.
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When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
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I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
Julianna Baggott
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
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Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.
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