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First Posted: 06/ 3/2011 3:16 pm Updated: 08/ 3/2011 6:12 am

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NeuroTribes:

I love books. My late father Donald, who taught Wordsworth and Melville to inner-city kids for decades, used to read Ulysses to me while he carried me on his shoulders.

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When I write one it'll appear here.
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12:22 AM on 06/04/2011
Write when you're not reading, and read when you're not writing.
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08:26 AM on 06/04/2011
Excellent! This is the credo I live by!
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