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the terrible intimacy of pregnancy,
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I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space--who else? & that night in my sand-colored 1987 Ford van with the American flag decal covering the rear window cruising Cedar Street, Dale Springs & parked in shadow & with my binoculars trained to the mostly shaded or darkened windows I thought, If this is where I am this is who I am. & so it was.
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'--the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls.
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A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A
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Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.
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powerful blow from a practiced boxer can stop an opponent's heart, it is said. It's a cruel blow but it can be thrown easily if you have the strength and the skill and the will to do such lethal hurt, and if your opponent has no skills of self-defense. Carefully
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How bizarre it seems to us, Hudson had been looking for a route to the Pacific Ocean, as his predecessor Christopher Columbus had been looking for a route to the East Indies . . . I thought The routes we think we are taking are not the routes we will take. The routes that take us. I
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The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane--he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The
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its somewhat austere and even forbidding limestone exterior,
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yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling;
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Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;
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I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.
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You may put this in your interview, Miss Fife, that Robert Frost believes in civilization--which is to say the Caucasian civilization." "But,"
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Why is the misery of a child so hilarious to other children?
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
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Constant interruptions are the destruction of imagination.
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
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The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
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Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
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The writer is a "somewhat mystical" -- or do I mean "mythical"? -- person.
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