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"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
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"I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone."

"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

"At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient lose their cool, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know. And guess what? We're all human. We all make mistakes, we lose our tempers, and we get caught off guard. We stumble, we slip, and we spin out of control sometimes. But that's usually the worst of it. We all have our moments. Most of the time, we're remarkable. So stand beside the people you love through their trying times of imperfection, and offer yourself the same courtesy. For more tips on how to live a productive life, read "The Angel Affect" and join the mission."

"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"Sudden friendship sure repentance."
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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."

"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

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

"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."

"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!"

"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
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