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Rita Dove

"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."

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"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

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"We have not the time to take our time."

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

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"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
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"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
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"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
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"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
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