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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
Poetry
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
Job
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
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