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“We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.”
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“When war is raging the laws are dumb.”
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“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
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“One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.”
Source : "The lessons of objects: an interview with Mark Doty". Interview with Andrew David King, www.kenyonreview.org. December 12, 2012.
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“Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.”
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“Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try”
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“I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...”
Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.”