Marilyn Hacker Quotes
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I would love to do some theater.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an atheist for his opinions. Let him have a care of his practices.
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Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
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Nor is it enough to refrain from personally performing an injustice, for in order to be good one must seek out and rectify injustices performed by others.
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We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
