"Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else."

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Source : Richard Siken (2015). “War of the Foxes”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

Richard Siken

“Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.”
“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.”
“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”
“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”
“Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.”
“God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.”
“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.”
“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”

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