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- Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
- The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem…
- This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event…
- Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There…
- It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
- ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the…
- Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the…
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