American - Author | January 13, 1934 - July 13, 2016
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
Carolyn See
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Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
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What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
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'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
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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 don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
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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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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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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 believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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