“I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.”
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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