"To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry."
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"I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique."
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"I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED"
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"A girl's affections should never be won unsought."
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"I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson."
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"I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture."
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"[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done."
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"When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody."
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"A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear."
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"All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated."
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"When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons."
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"We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination."
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"There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country."
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"The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised."
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"I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be."
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"You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time."
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"I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either."
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"It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man."
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"The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so."
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"Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation"
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