"Generosity is the vanity of giving."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love”
“I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.”
“Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.”
“You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.”
“The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.”

Source : "What You See Is What You Get: Marvin Bell in Conversation". Interview with Haines Eason, www.poets.org. August 20, 2009.
“I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.”
“Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.”

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