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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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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 17th, 1925

Died: May 15th, 1998

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