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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
Imperfection
"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."
Beginning
"Somewhere out there the world must have an end."
Existence
"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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"After every war someone has to tidy up."
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"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
Introspection
"Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand."
Life
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
Life
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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"I started earning a living as a poet rather early on."
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