American - Writer | December 8, 1949 -
My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
Mary Gordon
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
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Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
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Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
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In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
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I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
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I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
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