"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must."
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"A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies."
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"I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read."
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"Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable."
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"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
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"Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."
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"There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward."
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"In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite."
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"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
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"There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it."
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
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"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
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"Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
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"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."
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"To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass."
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"What if they gave a war and nobody came?"
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"Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes."
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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
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