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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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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
Poems
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
Language
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
Life
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
People
"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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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
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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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"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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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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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 come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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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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"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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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."
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"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States."
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