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"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
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