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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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Personal Development
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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Personal Development
"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I didn't really want to be a comedian."
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"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."
Want
"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."
Being
"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
Perception
"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."
War
"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
Fire
"She was the Judy Garland of American poetry."
Poetry
"I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?"
Want
"The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity."
Sex
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."
Poetry
"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
Time
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