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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."
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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."
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"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"
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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
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"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
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"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."
Writing
"Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."
Poetry
"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
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"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
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"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence."
Poetry
"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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