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"If you want to be happy, be."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"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."

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

"I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together."

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"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."

"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."

"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."

"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."

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