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- How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf…
- The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I…
- I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and…
- My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
- One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will…
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