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John C. Hawkes

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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Amber Hurdle

"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."

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Amber Hurdle

"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."

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Amber Hurdle

"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."

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Amber Hurdle

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."

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Amber Hurdle

"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Paris ain't much of a town."

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Amber Hurdle

"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."

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Amber Hurdle

"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."

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John C. Hawkes
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."

Language

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John C. Hawkes
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."

Imagination

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John C. Hawkes
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

Poems

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John C. Hawkes
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."

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John C. Hawkes
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."

Life

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John C. Hawkes
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."

People

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John C. Hawkes
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

Danger

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John C. Hawkes
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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John C. Hawkes
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."

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John C. Hawkes
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."

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