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"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population."
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"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."
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"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
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"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."
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"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric."
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"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."
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"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
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"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."
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"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
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