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

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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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I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

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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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On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

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I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

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Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

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