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John Eaton

"I really write for people."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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Amber Hurdle

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."

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"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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