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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime,…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for…
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles…
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Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses…
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old…
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I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood.…
— Patsy Kelly
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a…
— Willie Mays
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I…
— Josephine Baker
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Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it,
— Margaret Sullavan
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There has to be news at a place called Fox News,
— Shepard Smith
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It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called…
— Jay McShann
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This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every…
— Jeri Ryan
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