"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

Time, Childhood, First, Moments

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"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."

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"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."

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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

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"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"

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"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."

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"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."

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"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"

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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."

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"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit."

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"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."

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