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I think my way of being funny is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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