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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

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The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

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Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

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Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

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I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

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It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

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