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“My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.”

Quote by Cate Marvin

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Cate Marvin, born in 1969, is a talented poet whose works are known for their profound emotions and unique style. She has won numerous awards and has been widely praised by literary critics. more

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“Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.”

Writing Done Enough Lasts Decision Player Streets Television Despair Late Wake Up Active Evening Smoke Email June Needles Dvds Work Done

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“I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.”

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“When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"”

Ifs Hate Father Growing Up Growing I Hate Phrases Tempted Despised

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“New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.”

People Ifs Turns Cities New York Identity Remove Colorless

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“I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.”

Feels Persons Helping Individual Identity Manhattan New Yorkers Unattractive Crutches Elitism Provincialism

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“I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.”

Argument Strikes Admire Poetic Realism Restraint

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“I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.”

Thinking Writing Mind Made Country My Own Poet Spheres Imaginative Ohio Uneasy

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“Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.”

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“I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.”

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“Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.”

Important Landscape Pulling Imagery

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