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/ page 718 of 1205 /It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
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When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
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I'm bad at picking heroes.
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
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