Rod McKuen Quotes

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• I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.
• Extending your hand is extending yourself.
• I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.
• I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for…
• We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves.…
• I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now…
• If you love somebody, tell them.
• I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the…
• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass…
• The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
• Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only…
• We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
• and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.
• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
• The journey back is always longer than the forward run.
• Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of…
• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
• Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many…
• I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little…
• It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

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