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"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."

"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home."
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"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."


"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."


"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"


"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."


"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."


"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."


"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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