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"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools."
People
"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
Change
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
People
"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."
Kids
"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."
People
"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
Woman
"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
Decision-Making
"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."
Family
"There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."
Poetry
"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child."
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