I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

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I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

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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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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

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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 to get to it was by ship.

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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

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