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"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
"Failures make character, not success."
"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."
"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."
"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"
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"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"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."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"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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