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• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
• After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through…
• It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a…
• You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
• There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
• Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
• Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies…
• What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
• I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
• My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I…
• Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the…
• 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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