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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."

"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."

"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."

"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."

"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

"To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth-I count that something of a miracle."
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