“Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.”
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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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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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