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I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

Had Know Myself Separate
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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Amongst Battlefield Being Dead
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Book Daughter First First Of All
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Confess Eyes Face Heart
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Affection Love Love Is Price
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Difficulty Found Friend Hardly
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Abandon God Held Lord
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Always Between Breeze Cracking
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

End Every Finally Gets
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink Eat Live Only
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Divine Immortal Men Righteous
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Abstract Been European Expressionism
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
End Following God Him
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Against Away Courage Does
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Friends Had Health High
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Away Paradox Professor Take
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Afraid Becoming Capable Doing
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Advances Between Connection Develop
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Cannot Immediately Necessary Patience
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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