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John Berryman

"I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats."

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

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"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

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"They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact."

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"I always want to write something better than the last book."

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"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business."
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