"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit."

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"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit."

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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

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"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."

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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

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"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it."

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"A real prison breakfast' I said.'Yeah, but we are free.'And that summed it up."

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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

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"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."

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