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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."
"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."
"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."
"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."
"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."
"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."
"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."
"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."
"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."
Explore more quotes by David Antin
"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"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."
"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."
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"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."
"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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