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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Again Change Does Down
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you

Always Behind Face Sunshine
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I exist as I am, that is enough

Am Enough Exist
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle

Each Hearing Me Miracles
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains

Business Finally Found Nature
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Dark Light Miracle Moment
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We convince by our presence

Convince Our Presence
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad Best God Good
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Contain Enough Forever Me
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Believe Deserved Doubt Enemies
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Candor Faults Forgiven Him
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Freedom Own Superior Walk
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Single Individual Theory
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty Departure Independence Rely
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Be curious, not judgmental.
Curious Judgmental
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game

American Baseball Game Great
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Me Metaphysics More Satisfies
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

Beautiful Flowers Garden Give
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Flesh Great Poem Shall
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Believe Leaf Less Stars
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Always Far History Judging
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Audiences Great Must Poets
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes

ContainContradict Large Multitudes Myself
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

Hour Me Miracle Night
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

AiBest Earth Eat Grow
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Every Law Contrary Potent
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When I give I give myself.

Give Myself
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Satisfies Soul Truth Whatever
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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I accept reality and dare not question it.

Accept Dare Question Realiy
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Employment Following Man May
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity

ArExpression Glory Letters Light
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Destroy He Honors Learns
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe

Hub Object Universe
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Least Mankind Object Say
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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