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"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
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