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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through…
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a…
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You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
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Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies…
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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I…
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the…
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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
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Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with…
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I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly…
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That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to…
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I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
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I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any…
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I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.
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I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.
— Julia Roberts
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They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean…
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You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel…
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My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace…
— Harry Mathews
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
— James Taylor
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What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is…
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