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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."
Love
"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
Expression
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
Church
"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."
Poetry
"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."
Cultural
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
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"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
Expression
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
Poetry
"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."
Poetry
"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."
Thought
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