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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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Create and stir other people to create.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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The only way out is to go through.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.