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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,…
- Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants…
- Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
- Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
- What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by…
- Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really…
- It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
- Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
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