"I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become."

-- Aimee Mann

“It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.”
“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.”
“You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.”
“If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.”
“All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. Iâ€™m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.”
“A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.”
“I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.”

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