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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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"If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform."
"From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power."
"Don't be a pepper on the eyes of people, Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth."
"Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum."
"Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us."
"Your relevance in an environment may be determined by your acts there."
"A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media."
"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."
"People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow."
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"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."
"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
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