"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."

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Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

James Merrill

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“Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.”
“If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.”
“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation and laughter. Hence, shamanism could be said to have developed a means to tackle and override the barriers, oppression, and despair that tend to obstruct life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.”
“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”
“God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.”
“If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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