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Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
Julianna Baggott
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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
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Wilmington
Delaware
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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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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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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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Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
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I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
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I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
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Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
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I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
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Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
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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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The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
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I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
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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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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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But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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