"My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough."

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Hugo Claus

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“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.”
“Next time you bump your head, try to imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this day.”
“Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.”
“I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips...”
“I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.”
“Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.”
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.”

Source : "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.
“The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.”

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