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...have a clue. I really don't. I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact. I mean, people come up and tell me "the book changed my life," but I don't know...
...know a lot of Iraqis and they’re friends of mine, and it terrifies me, and they’re terrified,” says Senor, who is currently writing a book about the Middle East. “Even our biggest critics inside Iraq don’t want us to leave, and so there’s nothing to me so short-sighted or maddening than the notion that we should pull...
...can’t go over there and see someone step on a land mine and then come back here and work on your own problems,” Parker said. “You say, ‘I have to do whatever I can for the guys who are still back there...
...Harvard students who privately harbor fantasies that you’ll be famous one day would be well advised to join me in keeping a hypothetical rapt public in mind when you put pen to (the edge of the) paper. Because future historians will doubtlessly mine the margins of your old books for clues about your character...
...deep and mature pieceabout everywhere Snoop Dogg has beenin the game. Turns out, he’s changed recordlabels multiple times and even beatena murder charge: “I fought that case,wonder where the West would be if I’dhave lost that case / I slowed mine down,swimming with the sharks and I almostdrowned.”On the other hand, “Ego Trippin’” triesto experiment with genre in too manyways and ends up producing some hugebombs. Take “My Medicine,” a JohnnyCash cover...