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"Poetry is the deification of reality."
Poetry
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
Discipline
"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."
Suffering
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
Government
"The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention."
Attention
"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
People
"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."
Truth
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Music
"Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since."
Comfort
"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
Art
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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"
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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."
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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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Personal Development
"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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"I think I'm a focus for international attention."
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Personal Development
"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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Personal Development
"Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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Personal Development
"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
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Personal Development
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