Will Walker
Will Walker
William Walker may refer to:...
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.
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I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
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In 1978, I decided to apply protein chemical methods to membrane proteins, since this seemed to be both a challenging and important area.
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In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
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In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.
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Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.
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Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.
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If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.
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The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.