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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide…
— Martin Amis
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Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
— Doug Stanhope
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
— Mark Strand
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I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all…
— Frederick Seidel
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I like poems that are daggers that sing.
— Frederick Seidel
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
— Stan Brakhage
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All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
— John Fowles
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
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I like poems that are complex.
— Peter Davison
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