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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

Before Comedy Continue Creating Culture Democracy Endure Evolve First Goes Literature Must Political Saying Stable Without

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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

~ Amity Gaige

Accept Crisis Crucial Dangerous Gets Happiness Harder Like Poem Quiet Requisite See Those Times Your

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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

~ Amity Gaige

Admit Complaining Laugh Make Only People Use

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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

Approach Army Born Capital City Family Final Her Most Mother She Soviet

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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.

~ Amity Gaige

Better Day Every Every Day Personal Philosophy Try Write Writing

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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!

~ Amity Gaige

Ever Give Like Nobody Sentence Will Would Write Writes

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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

~ Amity Gaige

Bad Been Has-Been Oh Others Poet Pretty

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Other than a short article I read in 2008 when the real story broke, I have not followed the Clark Rockefeller case, and 'Schroder' is not a novelization of that story.

~ Amity Gaige

Article Broke Case Clark Followed Other Read Real Real Story Rockefeller Short Story Than

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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

Enter Eyes Few Few People Lodge Men Only Own Parenthood People Power Prepared Psychic Ready Running Sweat Women You Your

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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

~ Amity Gaige

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Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

~ Amity Gaige

Better Better Writer Competitive Great Ideally Inspires Read Reading Side Want While Writer Writers Writing

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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

~ Amity Gaige

Like Quietly Self-Esteem Truth

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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

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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

Got More Much School Than Time Times Work Would Would-Be Write Writing

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To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

~ Amity Gaige

Accepting Me Recognizing Self-Esteem Self-Love Who You

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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

Accomplish Art Ask Complaining Eat Exactly Feel Hear Laugh Little Need Recognition Seriously Taking Too Trying You Yourself

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