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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."
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"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."
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