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Amity Gaige
American Novelist
Born: 1972
Me People Think Will Writing You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. Amity Gaige
Me You Recognizing Self-Esteem Accepting Self-Love Who
It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy. Amity Gaige
Saying Democracy Culture Comedy Political First Before Evolve Must Without Continue Goes Stable Endure Literature Creating
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart. Amity Gaige
Rights Heart Legal Law Parents Human Heart Kidnapping System Parental Touched Divorce Deal Legal System Human Children Inadequacy Millions
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others. Amity Gaige
Poet Others Has-Been Bad Pretty Been Oh
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home. Amity Gaige
Home Family Marriage Think Our Slip Ourselves About Written Because Reveal Truths Quite Being Where Mean Reputations Keep Keeps
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it. Amity Gaige
Alone Nature Human Nature Think Society Typical Sees Both Writer She Within Human
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories. Amity Gaige
Life Me People World Job College Before Several Telling Folded Would Some Had Come Years Began Campus Just Stories Center Urban Worked Reason Kept
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! Amity Gaige
Will Would Give Write Writes Nobody Like Sentence Ever
I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union. Amity Gaige
Life Family School Parents Few Every Birth Cried Right Place Took Earth Ease Says Born Never Days Like Comfort Felt Lore Came Were Children Place Bus Rooted Regularity Union Many Even Keel Right Rained
Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth. Amity Gaige
Truth Like Self-Esteem Quietly
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. Amity Gaige
Me Dog Parents Other Several Worst Tricks Paranoid Small Joined Merely Identity Occurred Repertoire Intelligent Behaviors Suspicions Which Whole Each Keep Designed Set
Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men. Amity Gaige
You Eyes Women People Psychic Men Power Few Own Enter Lodge Running Parenthood Only Ready Few People Sweat Your Prepared
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible. Amity Gaige
Vision Somewhere Sets More Both California Make Era Debut Novel Helps Credible Her
There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school. Amity Gaige
Work Time Writing School Would Would-Be More Write Got Times Than Much Interfered
As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation. Amity Gaige
People Nation Weak Could Powerful Powerful Nation Separate Peaceful
When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly. Amity Gaige
Art You Yourself Seriously Complaining Too Recognition Laugh Exactly Eat Taking Feel Woeful Hear Accomplish Moan Trying Little Ask Need
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. Amity Gaige
Family Army Mother Final Approach City Born Most She Soviet Capital Her

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