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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
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"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
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"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low."
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"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on."
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"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage
"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."
Time
"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."
Poetry
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
Poetry
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
Friendship
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
Religion
"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
Intellectual
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
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