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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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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."
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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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"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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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
People
"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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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
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