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" It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. "

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" John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. "

" That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. "

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

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" Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. "

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" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

" If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. "

" If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. "

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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. "

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