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“To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.”
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“I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.”
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“... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”
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“If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.”
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“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”
Source : Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.”
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“We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.”
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“It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.”
Source : "Chaka Khan records song for Trayvon Martin" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012. 
