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It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.


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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.



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But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.



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if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.



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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.



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Agony without genius was gaucherie.



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When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.



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Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.



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I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.



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I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.



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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.





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I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.



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