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"Brokenness a result of bitterness."

"Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I'll attempt to push ahead for my behalf."

"Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice."

"Bitterness is a broken spirit."
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"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."

"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."

"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."

"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."

"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
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