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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

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I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

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The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

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I like the sound a typewriter makes.

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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3rd, 1947

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