finn’s Reviews > The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle > Status Update

‘We always think we are writing our autobiography, but life is not willing to tell \assure/ us which part of ourselves is the main one, which action is telling and what it tells. In that way I guess it is folly to see your life as a book—and such a clue for clever people who come after us to try to pierce our defenses..’