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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
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If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
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We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
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I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
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You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.
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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
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I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
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