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"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"
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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
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"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."
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"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
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"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."
People

"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
Thought

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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