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David Antin

"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

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"I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?"

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"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
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"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."
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"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
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"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."
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"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
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"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
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