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John Berryman has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point,…
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and…
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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame…
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Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
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Literature bores me, especially great literature
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Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
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We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
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One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
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This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
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I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.
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We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
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Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to…
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that…
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There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
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With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever…
— Mariella Frostrup
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The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about…
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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
— Tennessee Williams
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