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John C. Hawkes

"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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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."

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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."

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John C. Hawkes
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."

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John C. Hawkes
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

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