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I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

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Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

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You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

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I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

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If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

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We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 13th, 1955

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