"You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?"
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"Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself"
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"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
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"Hello, I must be going."
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"Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--"
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"When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you."
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"Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing."
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"The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth."
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"Let us be servants in order to be leaders."
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"When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat."
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"I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight."
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"The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes."
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"Almost anything is possible with time"
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"You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you."
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"Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?"
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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
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"It's inspiration that counts, not the drill."
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"Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind."
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"An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too."
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"My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness."
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