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• I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…
• It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family…
• February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
• I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
• Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
• The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in…
• I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the…
• Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this…
• The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
• It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and…
• I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best…
• I delight in what I fear.

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