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She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children.
“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
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“I do have a phone in New York. One night—at one in the morning!—I was awakened by Miss Bette Davis, the actress, calling from California to tell me how much she admired something of mine. She had no idea that it was anything later than ten o’clock at night where I was. “I don’t mind that, but in March, just before I left, the phone rang and a voice said: ‘We are going to castrate you and then kill you.’ All I could say to that was: ‘I think you have the wrong number.’ I’m quite sure he did.…”
― W. H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety
― W. H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
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