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"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
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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."

"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."

"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."

"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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