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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
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"A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes."
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"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others."
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"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."
Writing

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel

"It takes a long time to publish a book."
Time

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
Writing

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
Love

"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being

"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."
Time

"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."
Poetry

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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