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• ‟ Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'

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• ‟ Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

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• ‟ The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

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• ‟ Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

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• ‟ Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

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• ‟ No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

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• ‟ By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

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