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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th…
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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that…
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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the…
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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine…
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you…
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,…
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when…
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one;…
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet,…
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As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual…
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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue…
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If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life -…
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I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is…
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Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be…
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in…
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of…
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I eat these rap bitches, no fork, no spoon. I'm Nicki, I'm finicky, I'm picky.
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The part that wasn't a jackpot was his baseball mound of red pubic hair that looked like it had literally been attached…
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