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I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
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There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.