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"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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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."

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
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