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• Cada cosa que hago, la hago deprisa para poder hacer otra cosa. Así pasan los días, una mezcla de carreras de coches de carreras y la interminable construcción de una catedral gótica. A través de las ventanillas de mi veloz coche veo cómo se desvanece todo lo que amo: libros sin leer, chistes sin contar, paisajes sin visitar.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Fall, Stock Car Racing

  Stephen Dobyns, “Pursuit”

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• He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ocean, Good Luck, Thinking

  Stephen Dobyns (1984). “Black dog, red dog: poems”, Owl Books

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• There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Men, Strange Man, Wonderful

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Estoy leyendo "El ocaso de un siglo espléndido" de W.H. Lewis. Era el hermano de C.S. Lewis. Escribió dos libros sobre la corte francesa de Luis XIV que son increíblemente detallados. Son libros que en cada página dices: "Vaya, piensa en eso".

  Stephen Dobyns

  Brother, Reading, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Mistake, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

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  Ashamed, Middlemarch, Eliot

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• Me especialicé en inglés en la universidad y esa fue mi especialidad en la escuela de posgrado antes de cambiar a la escritura creativa. Leí mucho a [Charles] Dickens y [Anthony] Trollope, pero había muchas cosas que no había leído, como "Vanity Fair" de Thackeray, que está tan bien escrito y es tan divertido.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Escritura, escuela, universidad

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Feet, Ariel, Remember

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• Nunca leí "El buen soldado" de Ford Madox Ford. He estado leyendo libros que debería haber leído hace años y no lo hice. Este es uno de ellos.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Libro, Lectura, Años

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• I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People."
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  Independent, People, Winner

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• Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Poeta

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Miserable

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