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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

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And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

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Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

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We are all naturally xenophobic.

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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

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