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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"Rich folks always talk hard times."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?"
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"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are."
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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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"To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms."
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"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"
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"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
Talk
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
Business
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
Art
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
Bible
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
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