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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are…
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I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one…
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are…
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Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,…
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In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic…
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We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even…
— Lewis Thomas
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Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is…
— Timothy Keller
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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
— Christina, Queen of Sweden
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