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"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."
"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
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"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."
"Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings are very strong and turbulent. I think most of us are dying for lack of spirit in this culture."
"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
"Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness."
"Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up."
"Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have."
"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world."
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