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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
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"Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds."

"I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that."

"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."

"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."

"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"

"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."

"Everyone's alone-or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations?"

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

"Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
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