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It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

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Paul Beatty
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].
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I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about how even when writing these very academic, and, for the most part, serious papers there's just so much going on in her head and heart, and it's a reminder that there's a reason that she's studying these things.
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I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .
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