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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

About Across Animal Civilizations
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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 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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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Chemist Could Ends Exciting
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Want Nobody Only way Somebody
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I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.
Pay Back Happy First
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

Difficult childhood Surrounded Parent
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I never realized I could love people as much as I do now

Realized Love people Do now
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Spent days Answering question Thank me
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Everybody Talent Moving around Discovered
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Boy Girl Walk off Sunset
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whatever Happened Innovation Immaculate reality
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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Renewed Everything One ask Youth back
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
Anthropology Society works People put
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

Difference Movie Television Cases
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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Technology Keep moving Easier Tell
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I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Live Simple life Beaten track
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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

Follower Silent movies Visual medium
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Never interested Powerful Famous Film school
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Servant God Master Rich
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

God Pleased continually Mode Dealing
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.

Believe God Prayers Manifest Good time
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Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Assured Christianity More than Creeds
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When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

God Overcomes Our difficulties Assurance
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The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

Province Faith Probabilities cease
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Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

Life Prayer Meditation Master's use
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Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Money Worth Accomplish Lord's work
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I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

I live Spirit Prayer Walk about
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If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

Hold fast Confidence Faith Strengthened
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