Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
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When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
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