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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."
"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
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