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" Music is the best means we have of digesting time. "

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" You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. "

" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "

" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. "

" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "

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" A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. "

" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "

" A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. "

" Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. "

" What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. "

" Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. "

" You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. "

" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "

" Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. "

" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "

" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "

" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "

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" The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. "

" A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. "

" In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. "

" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "