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I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
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A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.
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Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!
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Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
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Time cancels young pain.
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.
