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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Chatting Courtship Flirting Life Life Is A Matter

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'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Behavior Desperately Down England Eroded Family Girl Governing Humanity Laws New New England Opens Ordinary Picture Poor Poverty Rules Rural Systems Turning Upside Upside Down

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I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

~Carolyn See

Topics: Believe Buy Cool Sell You

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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

~Carolyn See

Topics: About Gone Human Human Nature Ignore Long Long Way Most Nature Says Something Time Try Way

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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Burden Entire Life Poor Some Story Want Wretch You Your

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I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Amount Bad Been Bottom Certain Even Interesting Kind Live Poverty Style Very You

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I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

~Carolyn See

Topics: Anymore Interested Novels Think Women Writing

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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

~Carolyn See

Topics: California Fantasies Men Much New New York People Project Very Weird Women York

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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

~Carolyn See

Topics: American American Literature Become California Hope Literature Mainstream Part Process See Someday

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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

~Carolyn See

Topics: About Beautiful Book Captured Incredible Jazz Lee Look Luminous Marsh Most Most Beautiful Open Pianist Player Sax Some Sounds Tenor Turn Whenever Who World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 13th, 1934

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