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1625 Essayist Quotes

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Fiction Result Shall Tell
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
Again End Learned Love
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Abuse Against Beauty Been
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Courage Gift Marks
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Footing Laugh Lose Man
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Emotion Good Good Sense Love
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Case Go Going Lead
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Be Strong Funny Really See
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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

Baptism Coast Fascism Wants
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Going Nixon Out Think
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Acid Christian Head I Was Raised
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Been Concerts Dead Holes
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Grass Help Our Problem
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Behind Conservative Land Why
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It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

Any Certain Certain Point More
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Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Again Around Being Get
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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Audience Be Patient Deal Every
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Death Does In The Past Love
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

About America Better Get
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Because Fabric Get High
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Anything Know Necessary Ritual
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The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Fat Gets High Lady
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Broke Frontiers Largely Still
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Fun Fundamentalists Mental Out
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The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Dead God Grateful Grateful Dead
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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

Apart Check Christian Consciousness
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Cruelty Mercy Truth With
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There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Circle Crops England Enigma
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

About Breaking Energy Gives
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

Best Ever Intricate Piece
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

Box Broke Came Columbus
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When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Around Dead Part Rendezvous
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Appreciate Get Got Just
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Go Rest Take Use
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Lightning Rather Rod Than
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
Facts Hell Need Stories
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Between Heroes Phone Super
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Distilled Language Most Poetry
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Explore Hinge Intimate
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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 my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Any Be Because Could
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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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 we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

About Because Elements Language
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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