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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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A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he…
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really…
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
— George Orwell
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no…
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol…
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If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's…
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Why does my soul still ache for you every time I hear your name? Why do I still think you and I…
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Living doesn't mean you are alive, a happy soul always stays alive and make the best of living, be happy no matter…
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