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