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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
Development
"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
Politics
"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
Fool
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
Art
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
Night
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
Writing
"These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't."
Love
"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Love
"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
Work
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