"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

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Source : Atlantic Monthly Sept. 1935 "Litany for Dictatorships"

Stephen Vincent Benet

“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”
“Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.”
“You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.”
“All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.”
“One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.”
“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”
“I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.”

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