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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."
Explore more quotes by David Antin
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"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."
"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
"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."
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
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