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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
— Glenn Gould
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Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real…
— Jack Handey
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
— Frederick Buechner
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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
— Brian Baumgartner
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I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go…
— Ben Fountain
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as…
— Rita Dove
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Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I…
— C.S. Lewis
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We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time…
— Barack Obama
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.…
— C.S. Lewis
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When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be…
— Philip K. Dick
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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