"I did, not only because of that, but also because there was no value placed on education in my family. My mother just assumed I was smart, and I had glasses so I was called “four eyes,” and I was always reading a book, and so the outsider feeling came from the fact that I really loved school…"
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On feeling like an outsider both at his school and in his home life in “Artist Interview with Robert O'Hara” in Playwrights Horizon
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