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- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
- Instincts
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- Nov 07, 2020
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
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- Nov 07, 2020