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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.

Julianna Baggott

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Goodness
Capable
Among
Stand
Believe
Miraculously
Brutes
Remind

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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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I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
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No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
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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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I prefer true over happy now.
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
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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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Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
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Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.
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