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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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