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John Hawkes
 
Date of birth: 17 August 1925
Date of death: 15 May 1998
Country Of Origin: America
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Novelist

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" A man who taught writing died, and Guerard got me his job - a one-year appointment to teach writing, the beginning of my actual career. "

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" After the Field Service, when I was back at Harvard, I was still writing poetry, and I met the poet Theodore Spencer. "

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" As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung. "

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" As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. "

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" Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. "

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" Guerard helped me to maintain a consistent and a proper distance while narrating. "

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" He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since. "

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" Hillier read all of these poems, picked out about sixteen, and suggested I have them printed myself - this resulted in Fiasco Hall. "

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" I associate with them memories of handsome engravings of nineteenth-century racehorses, sometimes with jockeys on them, sometimes not. "

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" I decided I would do that aver again - make an entire novel out of that one little passage. "

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" I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then. "

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" I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. "

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" I do not feel an exile from America in any sense. "

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" I don't know much about my mother's family. Her father was in the banking business. "

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" I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing. "

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