"We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear."

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Source : Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.7, Beacon Press

Mark Doty

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“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”
“The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?”
“There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.”
“I like people who take responsibility for their lives.”
“I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.”
“The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.”
“The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.”

Source : "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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