Ben Lerner Quotes

Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself and gaze back, an important trick because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem, shuttling between the you and I.

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• I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
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• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Struggle
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• The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

  

  Imran Khan
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• This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

  

  Alan Alda
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• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  

  Alice James
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• The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Different
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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Heart
  • Ocean
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• Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'

  

  Lewis Black
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• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
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• Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself and gaze back, an important trick because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem, shuttling between the you and I.

  

  Ben Lerner
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