Octavio Paz Quotes
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Octavio Paz
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
Tamsin Greig
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
Bernard L. Schwartz
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
Larry Wilmore
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The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension.
Debra Granik
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Octavio Paz
