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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
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"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."
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"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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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"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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"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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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."
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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
Language
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
Danger
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
Life
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."
Ambiguity
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