As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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