"I do not feel an exile from America…" — John C. Hawkes

"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."

— John C. Hawkes

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12 Quotes by John C. Hawkes

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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the…
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way…
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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