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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

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All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

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I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

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When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

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Style is character.

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Call me the author.

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 5th, 1934

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