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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"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."

"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 was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."

"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
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