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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

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It was enough just to sit there without words.

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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

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To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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Time is money.

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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Industry need not wish.

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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