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I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.
Walter Mosley
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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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Walter Ellis Mosley
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Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.
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The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.
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Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.
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