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"I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature."
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"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
"When coming to sex: First served, first come."
"The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm."
"Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery."
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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."
"I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off."
"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."
"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."
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