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So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
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University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
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I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
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People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
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As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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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.
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I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
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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 believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
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Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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