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Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
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I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
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I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.
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I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Born:
February 3, 1947
(age 77)
Known for:
The Book of Illusions (2002)
Moon Palace (1989)
The Invention of Solitude (1982)
The Brooklyn Follies (2005)
Timbuktu (1999)
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