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When we test out our own insights on how other people might feel, the testing ground is ourselves. Our views on anything from politics to landscape are tinctured with our personality.

— Hortense Calisher Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

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Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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