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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
— Darcy O'Brien
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I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
— Ellen Page
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything…
— Rita Dove
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube,…
— Claude Monet
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I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
— Douglas Adams
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What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then…
— Scott Adams
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she…
— Cassandra Clare
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier…
— Wallace Stegner
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the…
— John Green
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