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James Merrill

"In life, there are no perfect affections."

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"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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"The last good time always comes."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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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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"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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"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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"The simplest science book is over my head."
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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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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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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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"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."
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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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