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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

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When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

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In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

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Friends are the sunshine of life.

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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

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I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

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It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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