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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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The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
— Dennis Rodman
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And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad…
— Sarah Silverman
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Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in…
— Chad Michael Murray
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I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year,
— David Alan Grier
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In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
— Beverley Mitchell
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For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
— William Styron
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
— Harry Mathews
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I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was…
— Shanley Caswell
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In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get.…
— Greg Kinnear
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
— Rachel Dratch
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Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard…
— Jason Lee
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