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"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
"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."
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
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