W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."
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The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
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Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
