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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
People

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
Poet

"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
Computer

"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
Decision-Making

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
Poetry

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
People

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading

"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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