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" Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action. "

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" We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways. "

" A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. "

" I am a victim of introspection. "

" There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. "

" One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. "

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" Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work. "

" When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels. "

" Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. "

" I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name. "

" I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' "

" Wear your heart on your skin in this life. "

" What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. "

" I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled. "

" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

" Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes. "

" If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years. "

" In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' "

" Is there no way out of the mind? "

" Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. "

" There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. "

" There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job. "

" The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch. "

" I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. "

" Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.' "

" I want Books and Babies and Beef stews. "

" I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew. "

" It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism. "