"My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War."
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"I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go."
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"A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought."
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"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."
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