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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

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These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

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There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.

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I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

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Many of the poets in the high poetic positions have been singularly silent or, at best, come out with a low mumble.

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I'm still working on it. Look what it did for Pisa!

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There are skyscrapers in Sumatra, in China, in Japan, in the Middle East, in mid-Europe, in all the countries that were once under dictatorships.

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It would have been nice had we provided a nice warm stable and we were feeding them regularly - the care and feeding of poets.

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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

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It seems to me it's changing for the worse. The spineless Democrats are taking dictation from George II who usurped the throne and is occupying the palace illegally.

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