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"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
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"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
Language
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living
"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
Being
"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
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