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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
- Intelligence
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For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
- My Life
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
- Me
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My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
- Mother
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
- Never
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
- Culture
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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
- Man
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French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
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I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
- Man
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I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
- Experience
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I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020