I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
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'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
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Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
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For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
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