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James Merrill

"In life, there are no perfect affections."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Amber Hurdle

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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Amber Hurdle

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

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Amber Hurdle

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

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Amber Hurdle

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

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Amber Hurdle

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

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Amber Hurdle

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

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"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"The simplest science book is over my head."
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"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."
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"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."
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"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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