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"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."
"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."
"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."
Explore more quotes by Randall Jarrell
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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