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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
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I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
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Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline.
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God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
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When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.
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One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
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We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
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I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
