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You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":45,"quote_text":46,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":40,"author":47,"source":48,"quote_tag":49,"commentary":9},3538694,"Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":51,"quote_text":52,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":40,"author":53,"source":54,"quote_tag":55,"commentary":9},3538691,"When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. 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