"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.“
-Leslie Fiedler
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