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Michael Longley
"I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable."
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Michael Longley
#Grows Quotes
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“Now, apparently, Im told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime-time reality show.”
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“I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.”
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“Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.”
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“Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.”
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“Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.”
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“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
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“An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.”
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“I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.”