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• We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
• I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
• There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
• All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.…
• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully…
• Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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