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"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."
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"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."
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"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
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