Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.
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A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.
Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
It's Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name - my sister, my brother. So from day one, I've always been called Dierks.
Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that.
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.
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