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"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
"One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself."
"Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends."
"I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around."
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."
"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."
"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
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