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"Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!"
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"The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked."
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"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
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"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."
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"How was I supposed to know 'lucked out' means 'I got screwed over' in Australian?"
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"I believe the phrase you're looking for is 'too much money and not enough things to spend it on."
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"Where did you find that one?''I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess.''They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.''Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?''Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
Poetry
"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
Poems
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
Poetry
"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."
Poetry
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
Poetry
"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
Character
"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
People
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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