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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.…
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling…
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Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however…
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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of…
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some…
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to…
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It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of…
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Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all…
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