"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."

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"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

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"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."

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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."

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"Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate."

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