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"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer."
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"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."
"When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system."
"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
"I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that."
"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."
"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."
"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder."
"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."
"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."
"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."
"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."
"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power."
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