"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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"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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"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 do not feel an exile from America in any sense."

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