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I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. — Ambrose Bierce
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger
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I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. — John Smith
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the… — John Masefield
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care… — Peter Forsyth
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt

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