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

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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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"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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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
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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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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
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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."
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"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
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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 used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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