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For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.

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Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

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For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

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Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

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Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

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We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

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If you stop loving someone, did you ever love them? If you say you're committed and later you're not committed, well, was the first thing commitment? You see what I mean? This kind of thing has always interested me.

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Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

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I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'

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Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 1st, 1946

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