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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
Perception
"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
"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
Writing
"I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome."
Want
"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."
Want
"She was the Judy Garland of American poetry."
Poetry
"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
"I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?"
Want
"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
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