Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I love my sleep.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
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Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
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I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
