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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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Don't just follow Christ emotionally, or rationally, or physically, or even just spiritually. Follow Him totally. Don't just be interested in God. Rather, be committed. God rewards those who seek Him diligently, not those who seek Him casually

Christ God Rewards Emotionally
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Always Ecstatic Experience Ready
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Feathers Hope Never Sings
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A leader who does not READ can't LEAD his people. He can only LID them by being the lid that blocks their progress in life

Leader Lead Lid Blocks
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Counted Never Succeed Succes
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Does How Intrude Knock
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Fame Give Give Me Life
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I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Boring Chair Corny Cream
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Age Gradually Old Old Age
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Honestly, I've been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

About Am Been Boring
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

Audience Music Painful Performer
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Where thou art, that is home.

Art Home Thou Thou Art
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Birds Economical Going Heaven
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Employ Freedom How Know
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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Africa Bob Bob Marley Climb
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

Day Now Perfect Up
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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Am Fool Hospital I Am
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

College Done Field Fire
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Broken Hopes Lest Life
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Account Always Another Complicated
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

Against Also Authors Both
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Cracked Found Genius More
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Facts Form Get Great
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Having wrong friends and yet expecting a great future is like building a house using inferior materials.

Future Great Wrong Friends
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Character Connect Dragon Dwarf
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