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"My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'"
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"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."
"I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around."
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."
"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher."
"I unlocked the deadbolt and flung the door open, stepping back for Gabby to see exactly who it was. 'Hello, Sara, I greeted.A bubble of laughter escaped Gabby before she could contain it. 'Yes, hello ex-girlfriend Sara. And might I add: law-breaker? Who let you out of your cage? Don't you know Joseph has a restraining order against you?"
"Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."
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"All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all."
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."
"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
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