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" Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. "

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" New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. "

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

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" There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. "

" I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. "

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" I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me. "

" Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. "

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