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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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 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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I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, did she say that out loud? kind of humor.
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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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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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Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.
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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
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I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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